Greg Quinlanhttp://www.pfaw.org/
Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:08:48 -0400Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:51:42 -0400A Spiritual Battle For America's Future: Five Takeaways From The Religious Right's Awakening Conferencehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/spiritual-battle-americas-future-five-takeaways-religious-rights-awakening-conference
<p>On Saturday, roughly 2,000 activists gathered at Faith Assembly, a megachurch in Orlando, for the Awakening, an annual &ldquo;<a href="http://freedomfederation.org/content/The_Awakening">Prayer and Patriotism event</a>&rdquo; organized by the Christian Right legal group Liberty Counsel. The Awakening, which Liberty Counsel organizes under the auspices of an <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/when-going-gets-tough-right-starts-new-group">amalgam of Religious Right groups</a> called the Freedom Federation, brings together activists from the evangelical Right with the GOP politicians who want their votes.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">At this year's event, GOP politicians including Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal (via video) and RNC faith director Chad Connelly <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-huckabee-and-santorum-join-far-right-activists-liberty-counsels-awakening">shared a stage with far-right activists</a> including "ex-gays," a phony ex-terrorist and at least two Religious Right leaders who insist that AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>Here are five takeaways from a day with the core of the Religious Right.</p>
<p><strong>1. Gay Marriage Will Send Christians To Jail</strong></p>
<p>While some on the Right may be trying to shy away from the issue of marriage equality now that it could be on its way to a Supreme Court victory, the activists at the Awakening were not among them. Throughout the conference, marriage between gay and lesbian couples was portrayed as a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-gay-activist-marriage-equality-heart-where-satans-attacking">demonic</a> and existential threat to liberty, one that if allowed to proceed would end in Christianity being outlawed and Christians thrown in jail.</p>
<p>The Republican National Committee&rsquo;s faith outreach director, Chad Connelly, who was moderating a panel on abortion rights, echoed the Religious Right&rsquo;s rhetoric when he warned that LGBT rights activists are &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-faith-director-warns-lgbt-activists-are-coming-church">coming for the church</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Far-right pastor Rick Scarborough, who was sitting beside him, agreed that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality, pastors will be forced to &ldquo;participate in same-sex marriage <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-faith-director-warns-lgbt-activists-are-coming-church">&rdquo; or be thrown in jail</a>. Liberty Counsel&rsquo;s Harry Mihet, moderating a separate panel, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-lawless-marriage-equality-undermines-whole-nature-america"> issued a similar warning</a>.</p>
<p>Scarborough repeated his warning when he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-lawless-marriage-equality-undermines-whole-nature-america">told activists</a> that a pro-equality Supreme Court ruling would outlaw anti-gay speech, thus undermining &ldquo;the whole nature of America.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Multiple speakers <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-supreme-court-pro-marriage-ruling-would-deserve-no-more-respect-dred-scott">compared</a> a potential Supreme Court decision on marriage equality to Dred Scott, the infamous pre-Civil War decision that barred African Americans from citizenship, declaring that it should be met with similar resistance.</p>
<p><strong>2. Losing The Church on Gay Rights Issues</strong></p>
<p>Although the Awakening took place in what appeared to be a generationally diverse, multiethnic church, the crowd at the conference was overwhelmingly older and white. Throughout the conference, speakers bemoaned the fact that the Religious Right was losing support among younger Christians for its political agenda, especially its opposition to LGBT rights.</p>
<p>Liberty University&rsquo;s Rena Lindevaldsen <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-gay-activist-marriage-equality-heart-where-satans-attacking">told the audience</a> at a breakout panel on &ldquo;sexual rebellion&rdquo; that when fellow conservative Christians ask her what the &ldquo;big deal&rdquo; is about LGBT rights, she responds &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a big deal because it&rsquo;s a big deal to God.&rdquo; Marriage equality, she told the enthusiastic audience, matters to God because it is &ldquo;the heart of where Satan&rsquo;s attacking&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>Evangelist Franklin Graham <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-exhorts-pastors-dont-shut-about-homosexuality-and-abortion">also lamented</a> that &ldquo;a lot of pastors have quit preaching against homosexuality&rdquo; out of fear of offending people in their churches who might have gay relatives. He told the audience that &ldquo;God will bless you and he&rsquo;ll honor you&rdquo; if you &ldquo;don&rsquo;t shut up&rdquo; about gay rights and abortion:</p>
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<p>This was a crowd that had not given up on discredited &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; therapy. An &ldquo;ex-lesbian&rdquo; activist, Janet Boynes, was given a main stage speaking slot and &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; activist Greg Quinlan earned a roaring round of applause from the audience at the &ldquo;sexual rebellion&rdquo; panel when he announced that he had been &ldquo;out of homosexuality for 27 years.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>3. A Spiritual Battle Against Islam And Progressivism</strong></p>
<p>Just as the crowd at the Awakening was upset that the conservative movement and the church have supposedly become less invested in fighting LGBT rights, they were also wary of any overtures between Christians and Muslims.</p>
<p>Graham declared that &ldquo;Islam is a wicked system&rdquo; and blasted Christians who say that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.</p>
<p>Kamal Saleem, the self-proclaimed &ldquo;ex-terrorist&rdquo; whose personal story has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-huckabee-and-santorum-join-far-right-activists-liberty-counsels-awakening"> never quite held up to scrutiny </a> , also warned that churches are being &ldquo;invaded by &lsquo;Chrislam,&rsquo;&rdquo; lamenting that Americans are oblivious to the dangers of radical Islam: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re watching American Idol and they are doing jihad.&rdquo; He also warned of what he called &ldquo;jihad of the womb,&rdquo; or Muslim immigrants giving birth in order to outnumber Christians.</p>
<p>What activists at the Awakening saw as a war against Islam was merely part of a larger &ldquo;spiritual battle&rdquo; between good and evil, God and Satan. In the panel discussion he led on LGBT rights, Matt Barber declared that there is an &ldquo;Islamo-progressive axis of evil&rdquo; with a &ldquo;common enemy&rdquo;: Christians.</p>
<p>Maine pastor Ken Graves repeated that theme when he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-pastor-secular-humanist-caliphate-militant-homofascism-taking-over-america"> declared</a> that American Christians are fighting &ldquo;militant Islam&rdquo; and &ldquo;militant homofascism&rdquo; and secularists who want to establish a &ldquo;secular humanist caliphate&rdquo;:</p>
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<p><strong>4. Time Is Running Out On America, And It&rsquo;s Up To The Church To Save It</strong></p>
<p>Throughout the day, speakers warned that America is running out of time before it is lost forever, and that it is up to conservative Christians to get involved in politics to save the country.</p>
<p>Graham told the crowd that he is more politically outspoken than his father, Billy Graham, because America is in a more dire state of secularism. &ldquo;When my father was born, the Ten Commandments were on the wall of every school in America. When my father was born, the teachers still led the class in the Lord&rsquo;s Prayer. Our country is not that anymore,&rdquo; he said, declaring that the 2016 election is the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/franklin-graham-only-one-election-left-save-america">last chance for the Religious Right to save</a> the country.</p>
<p>Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator and likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-santorum-yes-we-can-put-bible-back-public-schools">delivered a similar message</a>, warning that &ldquo;we are heading down in a direction that, let&rsquo;s be honest, no civilization has ever been able to recover from.&rdquo; Conservative Christians, he declared, must reinvest themselves in politics in order, to among other things, put the Bible in public schools:</p>
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<p>Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, another likely GOP presidential hopeful, told the crowd that prayer was needed to bring about &ldquo;spiritual revival&rdquo; and change the political direction of the country: &ldquo;If God&rsquo;s people truly pray down a spiritual awakening, then the political landscape will change.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This country did not start because some people had some brilliant ideas, although they did. This country happened because God&rsquo;s providence was the foundation of their brilliant ideas,&rdquo; Huckabee said. &ldquo;Because of his inspiration, this country has been sustained throughout all of its history because of God&rsquo;s specific intervention in helping us to win battles we should never have one and in keeping us from losing battles we should have lost.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The RNC&rsquo;s Connelly also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-faith-director-warns-lgbt-activists-are-coming-church"> made a plug for conservative churches to engage in partisan politics </a> , urging pastors to buck IRS rules preventing politicking from the pulpit and declaring that &ldquo;voting is not political, it&rsquo;s spiritual.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>5. The Religious Right And The GOP Still Need Each Other</strong></p>
<p>One of the strangest moments of the day came when a <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/576847017344827392">George W. Bush impersonator</a> walked onto the stage with Liberty Counsel&rsquo;s Mat Staver as he introduced Huckabee. Staver jokingly reassured the audience that it was not the former president&rsquo;s brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has clashed with the Religious Right over gay rights issues. It seemed to be a spontaneous addition to the program, it was hard not to see it also as a reminder to the audience of the potential power of the evangelical vote.</p>
<p>Unlike the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gops-hate-summit-who-s-who-2014-values-voter-summit">Family Research Council&rsquo;s Values Voter Summit</a>, which has become the flagship gathering of the GOP and the Religious Right, the Awakening tends to attract only true believers in the cause. This year, Santorum and Huckabee spoke, while Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal submitted a video message. Connelly, who heads the GOP&rsquo;s outreach to evangelical voters, moderated a panel on abortion rights, but largely deflected difficult questions from the far-right crowd.</p>
<p>Connelly did not, however, shy away from right-wing conspiracy theories, responding to a question about the &ldquo;culture of death&rdquo; in end-of-life care by claiming that the Affordable Care Act&rsquo;s<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/17/its-time-to-bury-the-death-panel-myth-for-good-is-this-the-way-to-do-it/"> mythical &ldquo;death panels&rdquo;</a> are &ldquo;a reality":</p>
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<p>It was clear throughout the day that however wary the Religious Right and the GOP establishment may be of each other, they still need each other. Speakers like Graham urged conservative Christians to revive the powerful Religious Right pressure machine to win GOP politicians to their side, whether or not they agreed with their issues. Meanwhile, the presence of the GOP candidates and Connelly indicated that this is a voting bloc that is still important to the party, however extreme its priorities may be.</p>
Miranda BlueAnti-GayAnti-MuslimAwakening 2015Bobby Jindal C4Chad ConnellyElection 2016Equality For AllFranklin Graham Greg QuinlanKamal SaleemKen GravesLiberty Counsel Liberty University Marriage EqualityMarriage EqualityMat Staver Matt Barber Mike Huckabee Rena LindevaldsenReproductive Healthrepublican national committee Rick Santorum Rick Scarborough Vision America Fair and Just CourtsFighting the RightReligious Liberty52351Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:08:48 -0400Greg QuinlanAnti-Gay Activist: Marriage Equality Is 'The Heart Of Where Satan's Attacking'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-gay-activist-marriage-equality-heart-where-satans-attacking
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<p>As we mentioned earlier, the mood at <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jindal-huckabee-and-santorum-join-far-right-activists-liberty-counsels-awakening"> Saturday&rsquo;s Awakening conference </a> in Florida around the issue of gay marriage <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-lawless-marriage-equality-undermines-whole-nature-america"> was utter panic</a>, and nowhere was that expressed more clearly than in a panel titled &ldquo;Same-Sex Marriage and Sexual Rebellion: Freedom Under Fire,&rdquo; moderated by off-the-rails anti-gay pundit Matt Barber and featuring a pastor, two &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; activists, and Rena Lindevaldsen, the Liberty University dean who has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-law-school-and-others-hit-rico-lawsuit-over-lisa-miller-kidnapping-case">murky ties</a> with the case of an &ldquo;ex-lesbian&rdquo; who fled the country with her daughter&nbsp;to defy a court order giving the child's other mother custody.</p>
<p>Lindevaldsen set the tone for the discussion when she lamented that too many conservative Christians aren&rsquo;t committed to fighting gay rights and instead ask her &ldquo;why is this such a big deal and why does it matter?&rdquo;</p>
<p>"It's a big deal because it's a big deal to God," she declared.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.elmbrook.org/mediafiles/uploaded/l/0e2385695_1376661561_lesson-8-how-now-shall-we-live-chuck-colson.pdf">Quoting the late Chuck Colson </a> , she told the audience, &ldquo;In every action we take, we are either helping to create a hell on Earth, or bringing down a foretaste of heaven&hellip;We are either advancing the rule of Satan or establishing the reign of God.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no middle ground, there&rsquo;s no neutrality, there is no compromise,&rdquo; she added, telling Christians who are on the fence about gay rights that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s not loving&rdquo; to let gay people &ldquo;go on not knowing that God has a better plan for their lives, this is not the way that God designed them to be.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This is the heart of where Satan&rsquo;s attacking,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;He is seeking to destroy human sexuality and marriage. Why? Because we are the reflection, marriage is the reflection of the relationship between Christ and his church. And so if you&rsquo;re going to destroy the only human reflection we have of that, we&rsquo;re going to destroy marriage.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Our friends at <a href="http://americanbridgepac.org/">American Bridge</a> captured the audio:</p>
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<p>Later in the panel, &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; activist Greg Quinlan similarly warned Christians not to be taken in by LGBT rights, saying that the Human Rights Campaign&rsquo;s famous equals sign bumper stickers are &ldquo;not about equality&rdquo; but &ldquo;about dominance&rdquo; and hide an effort to destroy the Constitution.</p>
<p>(Audio again via American Bridge):</p>
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<p>When you see that blue bumper sticker with that bright yellow sign, it&rsquo;s not about equality, it&rsquo;s about dominance. It&rsquo;s about silencing any voice that&rsquo;s against what they want to do. And the real issue is this &mdash; I want you to understand this. The Constitution of the United States is a Calvinist document &mdash; I&rsquo;m not a Calvinist &mdash; it&rsquo;s a Christian document, it was written by reformers, based on the word of God. The problem that the secular left has, secular progressives, whatever label you want to put on them, the anti-God folks, our Constitution. And their goal is to undo it, if that means by reinterpreting it rewriting it, but it is to undo it.</p>
<p>So know this, especially the homosexual agenda, if I go down the list, I got a thing called &ldquo;the big pink plan for a lavender culture,&rdquo; another talk I do, which goes to what the agenda is. I was there when they were talking about what they want to do. It&rsquo;s not about equality, it&rsquo;s about dominance.</p>
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Miranda BlueAnti-GayAwakening 2015C4Equality For AllGreg QuinlanLiberty Counsel Liberty University Marriage EqualityMarriage EqualityMatt Barber Rena LindevaldsenFighting the Right52281Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:11:04 -0400Greg Quinlan'Like A Tank In Tiananmen Square': Another Trailer For Janet Porter's Anti-Gay Documentaryhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tank-tiananmen-square-another-trailer-janet-porters-anti-gay-documentary
<p>Radical <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-leaders-join-anti-gay-extremists-insane-documentary">Religious Right activist</a> Janet Porter has released <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-presidential-hopefuls-and-members-congress-appear-new-anti-gay-documentary">yet another</a> trailer for her upcoming documentary "Light Wins: How To Overcome The Criminalization Of Christianity," which features a who's who of anti-gay activists as well as several <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sen-rand-paul-and-gop-congressmen-appear-new-trailer-anti-gay-documentary">Republican members of Congress</a> and presidential hopefuls Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee.</p>
<p>"Like a tank in Tiananmen Square," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somJ-IjMjKU">Porter says</a>, as she walks down the middle of a dark street as a pair of headlights bear down upon her, "the homosexual agenda has been running over people since Anita Bryant's courageous stand in the 1970s."</p>
<p>After that, it is nothing but 10 minutes of anti-gay activists calling upon Christians to rise up and fight back against the "homosexual agenda."</p>
<p>Among the participants we immediately recognized in this new clip are Huckabee, David Barton, Gary Glenn, Steven Hotze, Robert Knight, Judith Reisman, Stacy Swimp, Greg Quinlan, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Brian Camenker, James Dobson, Bill Donohue, Scott Lively, Frank Pavone, Dutch Sheets, Phyllis Schlafly, Rick Scarborough, Gary Bauer, Mark Crutcher, Jerry Boykin, and Harry Jackson.</p>
<p>At one point, Gohmert declares that it is the duty of Christians to "love people who engage in homosexualty" because "we all have family members that we think are making major mistakes with their lives, but you can still love them."</p>
<p>Later, Pastor Steve Witt declares that just as God would have saved Sodom and Gomorrah if only 10 righteous people could be found, so too can most American cities be spared, but only if thousands of people will take a stand against homosexuality.</p>
<p>At the end of this new clip, Porter is shown in an empty football stadium, warning that "the battle for our freedom is being fought while most Christians are on the sidelines. We need to get out of the stands and into the game because the Super Bowl for our country is being fought and our team is not even on the field."</p>
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Kyle MantylaAnti-GayBill Donohue Brian Camenker David Barton Dutch SheetsFrank Pavone Gary BauerGary GlennGreg QuinlanHarry Jackson James Dobson Janet Porter (née Folger)Jerry BoykinJudith ReismanMark CrutcherMike Huckabee Phyllis SchlaflyRep. Louie GohmertRick Scarborough Robert Knight Scott LivelyStacy SwimpSteven HotzeC3Faith 2 Action Fighting the Right50546Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:04:52 -0400Greg QuinlanReligious Right Group Defends Bogus Ex-Gay Billboardhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-group-defends-bogus-ex-gay-billboard
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<p>The ex-gay group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is standing by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/15/gay-conversion-groups-billboard-star-not-a-twin-but-is-gay">a controversial billboard</a> it has erected in Richmond, Virginia, which shows what it claims is a photo of identical twins, one gay and one straight, to prove that &ldquo;nobody is born gay.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Not only is the science behind such a claim <a href="http://www.lgbtscience.org/ex-gay-billboard-highlights-pfoxs-profound-ignorance-of-science/">shoddy</a>, but the gay stock-photo model featured on PFOX&rsquo;s billboard <a href="http://www.twocare.org/pfox-humiliated-after-billboard-twin-turns-out-to-be-gay-and-not-a-twin/">does not have a twin sibling</a>.</p>
<p>Greg Quinlan, PFOX&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/greg-quinlan-president-obama-justices-kennedy-and-kagan-are-secretly-gay">conspiratorial</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-panelists-gay-rights-activists-are-christ-hating-fascists">and</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-head-accuses-gays-and-lesbians-sexual-cannibalism">extremist</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ex-gay-activists-gays-oppressing-ex-gays-just-nazis-persecuted-jews">spokesman</a>, defended the billboard in an <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/nobody-is-born-gay/">interview</a> today with the far-right outlet WorldNetDaily, insisting that that his group just wants gay people to know that &ldquo;the truth that homosexuality is destructive to someone.&rdquo;</p>
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&ldquo;The billboard speaks to the scientific fact that to quote the American Psychiatric Association, &lsquo;there still remains no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological etiology for homosexuality,&rsquo;&rdquo; Quinlan told WND. &ldquo;There is zero evidence that a person is born a homosexual. In fact, Dr. Francis Collins of the human genome project with the National Institute of Health, who was appointed by President Clinton to do the project said homosexuality was &ldquo;not hard-wired.&rsquo;&rdquo;<br />
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When asked about Christian leaders who are calling for churches to be accepting of the homosexual lifestyle and begin to support same-sex marriage, Quinlan says the challenges Christians are facing today are not different than those faced by the early Christians.<br />
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&ldquo;The reason we see so much of a proliferation of homosexuality in our society now is because we live in a sex-saturated culture,&rdquo; Quinlan explained. &ldquo;The first century church thrived in a hyper-sexualized homosexual culture in an age of sexual anarchy. So can the 21st century church. We do not need to compromise our message in order to bring homosexuals into the church or accommodate them.&rdquo;<br />
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He said, &ldquo;The truth is the truth, and if we love someone, we will tell them the truth that homosexuality is destructive to someone. I know because I watched 100 of my friends die of AIDS.&rdquo;</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Ex-GayGreg QuinlanPFOX WorldNetDaily Fighting the Right49294Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:00:23 -0400Greg QuinlanEx-Gay Awareness Month Returns With October Summithttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ex-gay-awareness-month-returns-september-summit
<p>Following <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fewer-ten-people-show-ex-gay-pride-event-expected-draw-thousands">last year&rsquo;s smashing success of an ex-gay pride event</a>, ex-gay activists are organizing another &ldquo;<a href="http://www.voiceofthevoiceless.info/exgayawarenessmonth/">Ex-Gay Awareness Month</a>&rdquo; summit featuring Alan Keyes, Sandy Rios, Matt Barber and Peter Sprigg, along with real-life ex-gays Greg Quinlan and Christopher Doyle.</p>
<p>You can now receive a <a href="http://christiannewswire.com/news/3972574683.html">special early bird rate</a> for the Washington D.C. event, which will disclose its location upon registration [<a href="http://pfox.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Conference_Invitation_HS.pdf">PDF</a>] .</p>
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Agenda &ndash; Friday, October 3, 2014<br />
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9:00am &ndash; 10:00am &ndash; Pre-Event Get Together and Lobbying Education Training, Greg Quinlan, President of Equality And Justice For All (Location to be disclosed prior to the event)<br />
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10:00am &ndash; 5:00pm &ndash; Meetings with your Representatives and Senators (e-mail <a href="mailto:contact@equalityandjusticeforall.org">contact@equalityandjusticeforall.org</a> for assistance in making appointments)<br />
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5:00pm &ndash; 6:00pm &ndash; Dinner (on your own)<br />
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6:00pm &ndash; 9:00pm &ndash; Evening Reception (hors d&rsquo; oeuvres and dessert to be served) and Screening of &ldquo;Sing Over Me&rdquo; with Dennis Jernigan (Location to be disclosed prior to the event)<br />
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Agenda &ndash; Saturday, October 4, 2014<br />
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8:00am &ndash; 9:00am &ndash; Breakfast with Ambassador Alan Keyes (sponsorship tickets required)<br />
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9:00am &ndash; Invocation, Rev. Jayson Graves, LMFT<br />
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Welcome -Estella Salvatierra, President of PFOX/Regina Griggs, Executive Director of PFOX<br />
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Introduction &ndash; Christopher Doyle, President of Voice of the Voiceless<br />
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9:15am &ndash; 10:00am &ndash; Ambassador Alan Keyes, Former Republican Presidential Candidate<br />
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10:00am &ndash; 11:00am -Breakout Sessions<br />
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11:00am &ndash; 12:00pm -Breakout Sessions<br />
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12:00pm &ndash; 1:00pm -Breakout Sessions<br />
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1:00pm &ndash; 2:00pm - Luncheon<br />
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2:00pm &ndash; 3:00pm - Panel Discussion with Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays Panel, Moderated by Regina Griggs (Panel TBD)<br />
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3:00pm &ndash; 3:15pm &ndash; Break<br />
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3:15pm &ndash; 3:45pm &ndash; Courage Award for Former Homosexuals, Dennis Jernigan (Introduction by PFOX Past President Greg Quinlan<br />
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3:45pm &ndash; 4:00pm &ndash; Break<br />
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4:00pm &ndash; 5:00pm &ndash; Friend of Ex-Gays Freedom Award, Sandy Rios (Introduction by Voice of the Voiceless President Christopher Doyle)<br />
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5:00pm &ndash; Benediction</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAlan Keyes C4Christopher DoyleEx-GayEx-Gay Pride MonthGreg QuinlanMatt Barber Peter Sprigg PFOX Sandy Rios Voice of the VoicelessFighting the Right48056Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:15:32 -0400Greg QuinlanRight Wing Leftovers - 3/21/14http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-32114
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<ul> <li> When asked if he would have beaten President Obama had he been the GOP nominee in 2012, Rick Santorum
<a href="http://time.com/32718/rick-santorum-2016-presidential-race/">declared</a> "without a doubt!"</li> <p>
<li> "Ex-gay" Greg Quinlan <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/03/21/former-
homosexual-gay-agenda-seeking-dominance-not-equality#.UyypHYUVA-B">says</a> that gay activists are all "about dominance
[and] silencing anyone who has any other opinion than the homosexual opinion."</li> <p> <li> FRC <a
href="http://www.frc.org/prayerteam/prayer-targets-hobby-lobby-israel-transgender-mississippi-military-religious-liberty-
splc-un">prays</a> against "Transgender Bathroom Bills & Military Policy": "Intervene, Lord, for
your Law is being broken! We have defied your created order replacing your laws with confusion. Cause, we pray, legislators
in Maryland and other states, and the Obama administration not to add confusion to confusion as they could do. Cause your
people, led by their pastors, to say, "Enough is enough!" and to exercise their voices and authority as citizens
and voters to stop these and similar lawless actions."</li> <p> <li> Gary Bauer <a
href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2014/03/21/bauer-rand-paul-needs-to-remember-it-takes-two-sides-for-a-values-
truce#.UyypvYUVA-B">says</a> that Rand Paul's call for a truce on social issues "will hurt his or any other
Republican presidential possibility, if they're telling millions of American voters that make up the core of the
conservative coalition that he or anybody else does not intend to deal with those issues."</li> <p> <li>
Finally, <a href="http://www.scottlively.net/2014/03/20/harvard-mother-jones-and-the-gay-bullies/">Scott Lively is</a>
"greatly concerned about the decline of personal integrity and civility as American cultural values, which I attribute
to the rise of cultural Marxism, exemplified in part by the cult of 'gay' bullies who now dominate our public
discourse in virtually every sphere of society, but also by the parallel cult of pro-LGBT 'advocacy journalists' who
routinely bear false witness to the public in furtherance of their shared ideology."</li></ul>Kyle MantylaGary BauerGreg QuinlanLeftoversScott LivelyFamily Research Council46215Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:30:32 -0400Greg QuinlanScott Lively's New Anti-Gay Coalition: Governments Should Suppress LGBT 'Propaganda'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scott-lively-s-new-anti-gay-coalition-governments-should-suppress-lgbt-propaganda
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<p>Anti-gay activists Scott Lively and Peter LaBarbera held a press conference today to announce the formation of a new Coalition for Family Values to fight the &ldquo;destructive&rdquo; LGBT agenda around the world. They were joined by &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; activist Greg Quinlan and Diane Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania. Linda Harvey of Mission America sent a supportive statement.</p>
<p>And don&rsquo;t worry about calling these guys anti-gay. The rationale behind their new coalition seems to be that too many other Religious Right leaders will only speak out against marriage equality but not against homosexuality itself for fear of being labeled a hater or bigot. That approach, said Lively, is &ldquo;unprincipled.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The coalition&rsquo;s statement says:</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">&ldquo;&hellip;the vast majority of the people of the world do not accept the notion that sexual deviance should be normalized. It is time that these voices are heard on the world stage before the so-called elites of the Western powers impose their inverted morality on everyone through the manipulation of international law, which they clearly intend to do.&rdquo;</p>
<p>To explain why a new coalition was needed &ndash; after all, it&rsquo;s not as if there aren&rsquo;t already plenty of groups pushing anti-gay policies overseas -- Lively said:</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">&ldquo;We believe that the pro-family movement is not being well represented at the moment. Because most of the people that are in the leadership positions are afraid to speak the plain truth because of the media&hellip;.We&rsquo;re not against gay marriage and gay adoption because they&rsquo;re just bad public policy. We&rsquo;re against them because homosexuality itself is harmful to the people who practice it and to society.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The organizing statement written by Lively and signed by his new coalition partners says,</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">&ldquo;Let us pray for healing for those who choose the LGBT path, and (within reason) respect their right to be wrong in their private lives. But let us not allow the LGBT political movement to transform the world in its own distorted image.&rdquo;</p>
<p>For Lively, respecting &ldquo;within reason&rdquo; people&rsquo;s right to be &ldquo;wrong&rdquo; seems to be limited to society not persecuting gay people who have sex in private. He says he doesn&rsquo;t believe people should go to jail for what they do in their own bedroom, as long as they aren&rsquo;t trying to move society away from what he believes is a biblical approach to sexuality &ndash; what he calls the &ldquo;one flesh paradigm.&rdquo; He said, &ldquo;And that if you&rsquo;re going to be engaged in that kind of behavior, then stay in the privacy of your home and not try to transform the mainstream culture according to your sexual values.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Another point of the press conference was to praise Russian anti-gay laws. Says the coalition statement, &ldquo;we want to praise the Russian Federation for providing much-needed leadership in restoring family values in public policy, and to encourage the governments of the world to follow the excellent example that the Russian government has set in 2013 and 2014 by banning LGBT propaganda to children and limiting the adoption of children to natural families only.&rdquo; Peter La Barbera cited a poll saying that 74 percent of Russians say homosexuality should not be accepted in society, adding, &ldquo;Good for the Russians.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lively said his goal is not the criminalization of homosexuality. But, he said, the government has &ldquo;an affirmative duty to protect the natural family and to discourage all sex outside of marriage.&rdquo; He says he&rsquo;d like to return to the days &ldquo;when adultery was a criminal act.&rdquo; Such laws, he says, would be lightly enforced, but would help discourage sex outside marriage. What really bothers Lively, he says, is that pro-LGBT ideology has &ldquo;infiltrated&rdquo; the government; there needs to be a &ldquo;separation of LGBT and state&rdquo; so that the government is not allowed to advocate for &ldquo;the homosexual perspective.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Pushed by conservative activist Cliff Kincaid about the ways the anti-gay &ldquo;propaganda&rdquo; law in Russia is being used to suppress free speech and freedom of the press, Lively said he didn&rsquo;t favor that. But he said he was &ldquo;torn.&rdquo;</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">&ldquo;There is a zero sum equation here &ndash; that you&rsquo;re either going to have society that believes that sex belongs inside of marriage only, or that it&rsquo;s really anything goes within the principle of mutual consent. Those two ideas are mutually contradictory. In Russia, the Russian policy is to favor the pro-family perspective and suppress the speech of those who are against it. In the United States, it&rsquo;s the pro-gay perspective that&rsquo;s favored and anything against that is being suppressed.&rdquo;</p>
<p>When Kincaid challenged that claim, noting that Lively was holding a news conference and, unlike gay rights advocates in Russia, he wasn&rsquo;t been arrested or beaten, Lively said, &ldquo;I wish there was a good balance that could be struck.&rdquo;</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">&ldquo;I try to make all of my policies based on principle, and my principle is, the most important thing in dealing with this issue is that we need to affirm the biblical standard of one-flesh sexuality. All sex outside of marriage is harmful to society. Now, right now, the challenge to the Russians is how far are they going to let aggressive homosexual propagandists get a foothold in their society. And they&rsquo;re looking at the United States, and they&rsquo;re seeing what&rsquo;s happening here.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">When we started extending tolerance to these activists -- you know in the 1950s, Dale Jennings of the Mattachine Society said the goal of the gay movement was the right to be left alone &ndash; that&rsquo;s a direct quote. And as soon as we extended tolerance, then they began demanding more, and more, and more. You give &lsquo;em an inch and they take a mile.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">If there were some balance we could have, in which people who want to live discretely in a gay subculture can articulate their views in context, in which it&rsquo;s not going to be tearing down the fabric of society, then I&rsquo;m all for that. But if the only choice is suppressing a harmful propaganda, and giving it free reign, I&rsquo;m going to choose the suppression of the harmful propaganda. Because we&rsquo;ve seen in our country the consequences of not doing that.</p>
<p>Lively complained about businesses being punished for refusing to provide services to same-sex couples. &ldquo;This is what the homosexual activists do. They are the worst bullies in society. If you dare to stand up to them, even if all you say is that I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, they try to destroy you.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Lively made a similar point about the anti-gay law in Uganda. He claimed to have encouraged parliamentarians there to focus on &ldquo;prevention&rdquo; and &ldquo;treatment&rdquo; of homosexuality rather than punishment, and said he believes the law is overly harsh. He even said he had turned down a Ugandan who wanted to join the new coalition. But, he said, he was asked, &ldquo;If you could only choose between the Ugandan law minus the death penalty, or complete freedom for the homosexual agenda in Uganda, which one would you go with?&rdquo; His answer: &ldquo;And I said, well, I would have to with the restriction, because you have to put the children ahead of the adults. And that&rsquo;s what Russia is doing&hellip;it&rsquo;s the lesser of two evils.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Both Lively and LaBarbera were contemptuous of the notion that same-sex couples with children could be considered a family. In response to a question about children with gay parents, Lively said he rejects the premise that they are a family.</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">&ldquo;I think there&rsquo;s a false premise in your question, that these are families. I don&rsquo;t believe that they are families. I think when two people who define themselves by a type of sexual behavior put their own sexual interests ahead of the interests of children, that that is not a family.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Lively said same-sex couples are &ldquo;posing&rdquo; as mothers or fathers.&nbsp; LaBarbera denounced &ldquo;the bizarre concept of subjecting innocent children to households that are intentionally motherless or intentionally fatherless.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gramley from the Pennsylvania AFA affiliate said that children exposed to &ldquo;homosexual propaganda&rdquo; in schools, books, video games, and entertainment are like &ldquo;lab rats&rdquo; or &ldquo;guinea pigs.&rdquo; Said Gramley, &ldquo;We recognize the outcome of this war on the family will determine the very future of humanity itself.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Linda Harvey&rsquo;s written statement sounded a similar tone:</p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;">&ldquo;To be a faithful Christian in many of today&rsquo;s U.S. public schools means for many students that they walk into a daily atmosphere of sexual anarchy, institutional bigotry and widespread deceit&hellip;.Our next generation in the U.S. is being deliberately corrupted through such wayward guidance from deviant adults. We applaud the steps Russia is taking to ensure this is not the path for their students, and we encourage more countries to make the same wise choice, to say &lsquo;no&rsquo; to homosexual activism.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Lively seems unwilling to entertain the idea that his years of travelling the world to denounce LGBT people as threats to children could be in any way responsible for violence against LGBT people. &ldquo;We unequivocally condemn any violence against anyone, including homosexuals,&rdquo; he said. LaBarbera chimed in to say neither Lively or other activists he works with have ever espoused violence or hatred. Really.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lively said he only put out the word to get coalition members two days ago and that responses are flooding in from around the world. Among the recognizable Religious Right figures who signed up are Matt Barber, Tim Wildmon, Bryan Fischer, Gordon Klingenschmitt, Janet Porter, and Sally Kern. No haters there.&nbsp;</p>
Peter MontgomeryAnti-GayBrian CmenkerBryan FischerDiane GramleyEquality For AllGordon Klingenschmitt Greg QuinlanInternationalJanet PorterLGBTLinda Harvey Matt Barber Peter LaBarbera RussiaSally Kern Scott LivelyTim Wildmon ugandaAmerican Family Association of PennsylvaniaCoalition for Family ValuesFighting the RightFreedom of Speech45830Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:02:13 -0400Greg QuinlanPFOX: If 'Homofascism' Isn't Stopped, 'We Will Lose America And Our Souls'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-if-homofascism-isnt-stopped-we-will-lose-america-and-our-souls
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<p>Religious Right activists <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porter-tide-has-turned-against-homosexual-agenda">seem</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/phil-robertson-becomes-religious-right-hero">to</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-duck-dynasty-controversy-proves-we-are-mainstream">believe</a> that the controversy over Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson&rsquo;s racist and homophobic remarks and his ensuing suspension represents a watershed event in their fight against gay rights.</p>
<p>Case in point: Greg Quinlan&rsquo;s group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), which sees itself as the ex-gay alternative to PFLAG, now claims that the Robertson incident will &ldquo;awaken Americans&rdquo; to the dangers of &ldquo;homofascism.&rdquo; PFOX claims that like Robertson, they too are victims of the &ldquo;gay lobby&rdquo; which seeks &ldquo;to keep ex-gays in the closet.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Unless we stop it now as was accomplished with the Duck Dynasty backlash, homofascism will spread to persecute anyone who dares to disagree with the gay lobby, regardless if you live in Manhattan or the woods of Louisiana &ndash; no one will be spared,&rdquo; PFOX warns in a <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/will-the-duck-dynasty-controversy-awaken-americans-to-the-homofascist-jugge">statement</a> released yesterday. &ldquo;All who call themselves Christians must speak out against injustice and homofascism. Otherwise, we will lose America &ndash; and our souls.&rdquo;</p>
<blockquote>
Will Duck Dynasty Controversy Awaken Americans?<br />
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The gay bullying and intimidation deployed against Duck Dynasty&rsquo;s Phil Robertson is nothing new to the ex-gay community. For too long in this country, gay rights organizations have incorporated ex-gay bashing as an integral part of their mission. Christian ex-gays are ridiculed for their faith, while people seeking therapy for unwanted same-sex attractions are painted as dangerously delusional. On this one-way street of intolerance, former homosexuals are accused of being liars or fakes while transgenders are celebrated for changing their gender identity. Using their political power and mainstream media support, gay activists work to keep ex-gays in the closet while demanding legal recognition of single-sex marriage as an equal right.<br />
<br />
This well-organized and heavily-funded bullying of former homosexuals and ex-gay speech is known by the ex-gay community as &lsquo;homofascism.&rsquo;<br />
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Is bullying and persecution a gay civil right? No, it&rsquo;s not; homofascism is wrong. Unless we stop it now as was accomplished with the Duck Dynasty backlash, homofascism will spread to persecute anyone who dares to disagree with the gay lobby, regardless if you live in Manhattan or the woods of Louisiana &ndash; no one will be spared. When irrational fears of male-female heterosexuality instigate demands for public censorship and obedience to the gay lobby, silence is not an option.<br />
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All who call themselves Christians must speak out against injustice and homofascism. Otherwise, we will lose America &ndash; and our souls.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Ex-GayGreg QuinlanPFOX Phil RobertsonFighting the Right45344Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:00:06 -0400Greg QuinlanEx-Gay Activists: Gays Oppressing Ex-Gays Just As Nazis Persecuted Jewshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ex-gay-activists-gays-oppressing-ex-gays-just-nazis-persecuted-jews
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<p>Three speakers at <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fewer-ten-people-show-ex-gay-pride-event-expected-draw-thousands">August&rsquo;s pitiful Ex-Gay Pride rally</a> recently appeared on a podcast, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/grok558/2013/09/28/deeper-waters-ex-homosexuals-come-out">Deeper Waters</a>, to explain how ex-gays in America like themselves are just like the Jews living under Nazi Germany. Deeper Waters hosted PFOX&rsquo;s Greg Quinlan, Douglas McIntyre of Homosexuals Anonymous and Grace Harley, who says she is ex-transgender.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The Lord brought to me the Jewish Holocaust in my prayer time and it brought tears to my eyes, because He said, &lsquo;as the Jewish people were being victimized, demonized, demonized to the point that all the Germans and all the people started believing and accepting it, guess what folks? That&rsquo;s happening here in America,&rdquo; Harley said, with Quinlan in agreement. &ldquo;Ex-gay people like myself &mdash; we are being so demonized and hated and this is your God they&rsquo;re hating.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Jesus did not walk into one voting booth and pull the lever for the current administration,&rdquo; Harley exclaimed.</p>
<p>Later in the program, McIntyre also compared the plight of ex-gays to that of Jews under Nazism: &ldquo;I took a tour of the Holocaust Museum and I went through the early years and looked at exactly the same techniques of lying, suppression and propaganda were exercised there as are being played out today, almost word for word.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Quinlan likened the impact of the gay rights movement, which he described as demonic, to the wreckage of a tornado hitting a town. &ldquo;We have lost our country,&rdquo; he lamented.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We have something they will never have, we have a victorious Christ, all they have is a defeated Devil,&rdquo; Quinlan said. &ldquo;We can win this but we have to take back our culture.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Harley claimed that many gay people who are &ldquo;determined to go to Hell with their father, they are literally determined to go with Satan, and realize there are a lot of homosexuals that are in the occult.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Moments later, Harvey said that Obama has &ldquo;homosexual orientation tendencies,&rdquo; proving that we are in the Last Days: &ldquo;The spirit will not dwell with us too much longer because we truly are in the End Times. Any time you have the head of a country with homosexual orientation tendencies, and I say that because Jesus said, &lsquo;if you look at a woman with lust you have committed adultery,&rsquo; if you have the heart of the homosexual in your heart and your mind then you are without even committing the act, you are there. We have countries, or America&mdash;it&rsquo;s devastating what&rsquo;s going on.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4Ex-GayEx-Gay Pride MonthGreg QuinlanPFOX Fighting the Right44518Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:50:34 -0400Greg QuinlanOnly Fifteen 'Ex-Gay Activists' Show Up For 'Ex-Gay Awareness Month' Lobby Dayhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/only-fifteen-ex-gay-activists-show-ex-gay-awareness-month-lobby-day
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<p>Despite claims that &ldquo;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0zpd11sm80&feature=youtu.be">there are more ex-gay people in the world than there are gay people in the world</a>&rdquo; and that there are &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fewer-ten-people-show-ex-gay-pride-event-expected-draw-thousands">thousands of ex-gays</a>&rdquo; ready to march on Washington and make their voices heard, ex-gay gatherings always seem to assemble just a small handful of people. And it&rsquo;s always the exact same people.</p>
<p>Ex-Gay Awareness Month, which immediately followed the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fewer-ten-people-show-ex-gay-pride-event-expected-draw-thousands">disastrous Ex-Gay Pride Month lobby day</a>, managed to <a href="http://www.worldmag.com/2013/10/staver_honored_at_event_for_ex_gays">muster</a> &ldquo;about 15 ex-gay activists to lobby Capitol Hill&rdquo; yesterday.</p>
<p>Seeing that Congress was in the midst of a battle over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling, ex-gay activists may have wished they chose a different day to come to Washington.</p>
<p>While organizers <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ex-gay-pride-hide-and-seek">denied Right Wing Watch&rsquo;s registration</a> to the dinner focused on getting more attention for stories from ex-gays, the conservative outlet <a href="http://www.worldmag.com/2013/10/staver_honored_at_event_for_ex_gays"><em>WORLD</em></a> was allowed into the event, and reported that activists vowed to go on the offensive:</p>
<blockquote>
Greg Quinlan, president of PFOX, led a group of about 15 ex-gay activists to lobby on Capitol Hill earlier in the day. &ldquo;In order to win the culture war on homosexuality, it&rsquo;s going to take ex-gays telling their stories,&rdquo; Quinlan said during fiery remarks that prompted a standing ovation.<br />
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Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Washington, finished the evening with a keynote address urging former homosexuals not to back down and let the naysayers stop them from fulfilling their God-given potential.<br />
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&ldquo;Gay activists have actually paved the way for us,&rdquo; said Christopher Doyle, president of Voice of the Voiceless. &ldquo;We need to scream and yell for equality and justice for all. We can no longer afford to be on the defensive.&rdquo;</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Christopher DoyleEx-GayEx-Gay Pride MonthGreg QuinlanHarry Jackson PFOX Voice of the VoicelessFighting the Right44419Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:45:51 -0400Greg QuinlanFewer Than Ten People Show Up For Ex-Gay Pride Event That Expected to Draw 'Thousands'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fewer-ten-people-show-ex-gay-pride-event-expected-draw-thousands
<p>Yesterday, American Family Radio&rsquo;s Sandy Rios spoke to Ex-Gay Pride Month organizer Christopher Doyle about today&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ex-gay-pride-month-push-congressional-resolution-organizing-music-video-contest">ex-gay lobby day on Capitol Hill</a>. Doyle, who was organizing the since-canceled <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/will-michele-bachmann-and-jim-demint-headline-ex-gay-pride-month">Ex-Gay Pride banquet</a> at the Family Research Council, complained in an interview with the <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/ex-gay-community-to-lobby-congress-for-recognition-protection-from-discrimination-101211/"><em>Christian Post</em></a> that &ldquo;un-American&rdquo; LGBT rights advocates have &ldquo;shut us out,&rdquo; explaining that &ldquo;because of all this homo-fascism and indoctrination in the media, ex-gays aren&rsquo;t given a fair shake.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Rios confidently predicted that &ldquo;thousands of ex-gays are descending&rdquo; on Washington for a press conference planned for today at the Supreme Court. She lamented that when she led Concerned Women for America the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314975/John-Paulk-Ex-gay-movement-poster-boy-says-sorry-gay-along.html">media</a> refused to hear &ldquo;our ex-gay friends&rdquo; because it &ldquo;undermined the whole effort of the homosexual lobby.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Doyle told Rios that &ldquo;tens of thousands&rdquo; of ex-gays exist but are &ldquo;in the closet because of fear, shame and threats from gay activists.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Well, despite the expectation that &ldquo;thousands of ex-gays&rdquo; would partake in Ex-Gay Pride Month, fewer than ten people showed up for the big event.</p>
<p>Besides Doyle, ex-gay activists <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/greg-quinlan">Greg Quinlan</a> of Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays (PFOX), <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-19-2007/diagnosis--mystery-pt--2">Richard Cohen</a> of the International Healing Foundation and <a href="https://www.truthwinsout.org/news/2013/07/36277/">Douglas McIntyre</a> of Homosexuals Anonymous also participated.</p>
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<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> As Tory <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ex-gay-activist-hip-hip-hurray-ex-gays">noted</a>, Voice of the Voiceless board member <a href="http://www.voiceofthevoiceless.info/advisory-board/">Chuck Peters</a> even came up with an <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ex-gay-activist-hip-hip-hurray-ex-gays">ex-gay chant</a>.</p>
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Brian TashmanC4Christopher DoyleEx-GayEx-Gay Pride MonthGreg QuinlanPFOX Sandy Rios Voice of the VoicelessFighting the Right43837Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:30:04 -0400Greg QuinlanGreg Quinlan: President Obama, Justices Kennedy and Kagan Are Secretly Gayhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/greg-quinlan-president-obama-justices-kennedy-and-kagan-are-secretly-gay
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<p>Greg Quinlan, an &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; activist who is slated to speak at the Family Research Council&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/will-michele-bachmann-and-jim-demint-headline-ex-gay-pride-month">Ex-Gay Pride Month</a>&rdquo; event later this July, told his personal story yesterday to Bradlee Dean and Jake McMillan of <em>Sons of Liberty Radio</em>.</p>
<p>Quinlan told the radio hosts that he once was a supporter of the Human Rights Campaign &mdash; &ldquo;As I put it, what the Devil turned me to do I can now use for the Lord&rdquo; &mdash; and it was during his time volunteering for HRC that he learned that Justices Anthony Kennedy and Elena Kagan are secretly gay. Kagan and Kennedy, Quinlan insisted, are &ldquo;black-robed Nazis&rdquo; who seek to &ldquo;accommodate their own personal predilections, including their own sexuality.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Mr. Kennedy has a predilection on the down low,&rdquo; Quinlan said, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-justice-kennedy-does-he-have-some-clerks-who-happen-be-gays">channeling Pat Robertson</a>.</p>
<p>He added that President Obama is also &ldquo;a down low president.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Quinlan later asserted that gay rights advocates seek to bring about &ldquo;the end of the church,&rdquo; &ldquo;destroy&rdquo; the US Constitution&hellip;and rise to power just as they did in Nazi Germany.</p>
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<p>After maintaining that the Nazis were led by &ldquo;the butch, masculine types that still participate in homosexuality,&rdquo; McMillan asked if Rachel Maddow, whom Dean <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bradlee-dean-doma-ruling-will-bring-destruction-america-and-also-please-help-my-maddow-lawsu">unsuccessfully sued</a> for $50 million, &ldquo;would be considered a butch or a femme.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Quinlan answered that Maddow is both a butch (because she&rsquo;s a Nazi) and a femme (because she wears lipstick): &ldquo;She would definitely be a butch but she is a butch who has to be a femme, meaning she has to put on lipstick.&rdquo; Quinlan and McMillan then warned that gays and lesbians are coming after children.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We speak to it from protecting the next generation. My gosh, the crimes are horrendous and we know what the end of it is, they are always going for the schools, they want little boys,&rdquo; McMillan charged. Quinlan, agreed, saying that gays and lesbians want &ldquo;little boys and little girls.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAnti-GayBradlee DeanC4Ex-GayEx-Gay Pride MonthGreg QuinlanPFOX Supreme CourtYou Can Run But You Cannot HideFighting the Right43569Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:05:09 -0400Greg QuinlanWill Michele Bachmann and Jim DeMint Headline Ex-Gay Pride Month?http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/will-michele-bachmann-and-jim-demint-headline-ex-gay-pride-month
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<p>Channeling <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKie-vgUGdI">Tobias F&uuml;nke</a>, ex-gay activist Christopher Doyle wants everyone to know there are tens of thousands of &ldquo;former homosexuals.&rdquo; In an interview with the American Family Association&rsquo;s <a href="http://instantanalysis.net/culture/2013/07/01/ex-gays-demand-to-be-heard#.UdGu_fnqmId">OneNewsNow</a> today, Doyle declares July to be &ldquo;Ex-Gay Pride Month&rdquo; and laments that the &ldquo;gay activist lobby&rdquo; is &ldquo;discriminating [against] us&rdquo; by &ldquo;taking away our rights&rdquo; to not be gay&hellip;or something.</p>
<p>OneNewsNow reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann and Rep. Tim Huelskamp, along with Heritage Foundation head and former senator Jim DeMint and Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, plan to address a July 31 ex-gay function organized by Doyle and hosted by the Family Research Council.</p>
<p>According to an invitation to the event [<a href="http://www.voiceofthevoiceless.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/invite-EXGayPride-final-new.pdf">PDF</a>], the four are listed as invited but not confirmed speakers. Other invited speakers include anti-gay activists Star Parker and Harry Jackson.</p>
<p>The only confirmed speakers are Doyle; fellow ex-gay activists DL Foster, who has said <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/former-homosexual-calls-dan-savages-arrest">Dan Savage should be arrested</a>; and Greg Quinlan, who claims gay people practise &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-head-accuses-gays-and-lesbians-sexual-cannibalism">sexual cannibalism</a>.&rdquo;</p>
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Former homosexuals will be in Washington later this month to celebrate the first annual "Ex-Gay Pride Month."<br />
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Christopher Doyle, co-founder of Voice of the Voiceless (VoV), explains how his group will cap off the month of July.<br />
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"What we're going to be doing is former homosexuals, persons with unwanted same-sex attractions and their families and allies are going to be convening on Washington, D.C. on July 31st to send a clear message to the members of Congress that ex-gays are alive; we do exist," Doyle tells OneNewsNow. "There are tens of thousands of us, and we want to be counted."<br />
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Homosexual activists try to erase former homosexuals from the scene, contending that people cannot change if they are attracted to the same gender.<br />
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"We are tired of the gay activist lobby discriminating [against] us, marginalizing us and taking away our rights, and we're now fighting back, and we're demanding that if gays are going to get full diversity and equality in America, we also demand that ex-gay voices be heard as well," the VoV co-founder details.<br />
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He adds that his organization will lobby Congress throughout the day, then hold a dinner and reception with Equality and Justice for All at Family Research Counsel [sic] Action in the evening for attendees. Featured speakers include Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN), former Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver, Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), and several prominent leaders in the ex-gay and faith communities who celebrate the fact that change is possible.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Christopher DoyleDL FosterEx-GayEx-Gay Pride MonthGreg QuinlanHarry Jackson Jim DeMint Mat Staver Michele BachmannOneNewsNow Star Parker Tim HuelskampVoice of the VoicelessFamily Research CouncilFighting the Right43539Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:45:14 -0400Greg QuinlanRight Wing Leftovers - 6/27/13http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-62713
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The Senate votes <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/308205-senate-votes-to-end-debate-on-immigration">68-32</a> to approve immigration reform legislation.</li>
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William Owens of the Coalition of African-American Pastors claims gay marriage leads to the <a href="http://instantanalysis.net/church/2013/06/27/clergy-group-rulings-should-light-a-fire-under-the-church-under-pastors#.UcyiTvmyCbN">end of society</a>.</li>
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Pat Robertson warns the DOMA decision has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/06/27/robertson-compares-doma-ruling-to-sodom-and-gom/194646">doomed America</a>.&nbsp;</li>
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Kristan Hawkins <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/node/352158/print">blames</a> gay marriage on legal abortion.&nbsp;</li>
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Tea Party leader Karen Kenney says the Supreme Court&rsquo;s ruling on Prop 8 is a &ldquo;<a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2013/June/Prop-8-Supporters-Court-Set-Dangerous-Precedent/">new kind of tyranny</a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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Michael Brown <a href="http://www.charismamag.com/life/culture/18151-the-battle-is-for-your-child-s-future">criticizes</a> transgender youth: &ldquo;What if the child was sure he or she was an alien? Or an animal? Or a black child in a white body?&rdquo;</li>
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The New Jersey state Senate followed the Assembly in <a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/nj_senate_sends_bill_banning_gay-to-straight_conversion_therapy_to_christie.html#/0">passing</a> a bill limiting sexual orientation conversion therapy, a bill ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2013/06/26/reparative-therapy-in-the-crosshairs-in-nj#.UcyjHfmyCbO">argues</a> &ldquo;rapes faith&rdquo; and bolsters &ldquo;an anti-Christian movement to destroy the United States Constitution.&rdquo;</li>
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Brian TashmanC4Greg QuinlanLeftoversMichael BrownPat Robertson William Owens Fighting the Right43514Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:45:19 -0400Greg QuinlanReligious Right Panelists: Gay Rights Activists are Christ-Hating Fascistshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-panelists-gay-rights-activists-are-christ-hating-fascists
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<p>At Liberty Counsel&rsquo;s recent <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/awakening-more-right-wing-preaching-needed-save-america">Awakening</a> conference, gays were portrayed as enemies of religious freedom who are bent on turning public schools into indoctrination centers using the issue of bullying as a &ldquo;Trojan horse.&rdquo;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/greg-quinlan">Greg Quinlan</a>, president of Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays, who describes himself as ex-gay, complained that New Jersey&rsquo;s new anti-bullying law is being used to bully Christian students, and hollered that the law is actually fascism.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;">You don&rsquo;t need a law, inculcated and put into code, to talk about bullying. What this bully bill is is behavior modification. That&rsquo;s the job of the parents and the teachers and we don&rsquo;t need that put into law. This is fascism! This is fascism! We need to put a swastika on it!</p>
<p>Quinlan complained that public officials, including Gov. Chris Christie, would not listen to Religious Right objections to the bill because gay rights advocates had exploited the suicide of a bullied boy:</p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;">Because one boy -- and the homosexual agenda is extremely good at this, when there&rsquo;s a disaster -- one boy jumps off the George Washington Bridge, kills himself in the Hudson River. And they <em>seized</em> that moment and they took it and used it to their advantage. And what did we do? We said &ldquo;Oh, that&rsquo;s terrible that that happened,&rdquo; but we don&rsquo;t have any statements to make when these issues do happen. This&nbsp;is where we have to have better messaging.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/matt-barber">Matt Barber</a>, one of the most ferociously anti-gay voices in public life, used a question about the treatment of an anti-gay protestor to charge that gays are motivated by hatred for Jesus Christ&nbsp;and that the &ldquo;homosexual lifestyle&rdquo; is a sin-condemned &ldquo;culture of death.&rdquo;</p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;">The question was, an elderly woman was at a homosexual rally and she was carrying this big styrofoam cross and she was knocked around, it was caught on film, no charges were filed, they took her cross, and stomped it, and crushed into tiny bits. That is a microcosm of what we&rsquo;re up here &ndash; and I thought, something that immediately occurred to me was, wasn&rsquo;t that a metaphor for what we&rsquo;re up against. It&rsquo;s about the cross. It&rsquo;s about the cross and a hatred of Christ, who is what? The way, the truth, and the life.&nbsp; They hate the way, which is Christ, they hate the truth, which they are in conflict with, and they hate life. This is a culture of death we are talking about here, and the wages of sin is what? Is death. The homosexual lifestyle astronomically, from a statistical standpoint, leads to death. The wages of sin is death.</p>
<p>Other speakers on the panel were <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rena-lindevaldsen">Rena Lindevaldsen</a>, a Liberty University law professor and associate dean, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/cynthia-dunbar">Cynthia Dunbar</a>, a Religious Right activist who served on the Texas state board of education and who is now also a law professor at Liberty. Dunbar bragged in her conference bio that her work has earned her a &ldquo;position&rdquo; on Right Wing Watch.</p>
Peter MontgomeryAwakening 2013Cynthia DunbarEquality For AllGreg QuinlanLiberty Counsel Liberty University Marriage EqualityMatt Barber PFOX Rena LindevaldsenFighting the Right43005Thu, 09 May 2013 12:10:21 -0400Greg QuinlanRight Wing Leftovers - 5/3/13http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-5313
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Police have <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Gunfire-reported-at-Houston-s-Bush-Airport-4483406.php">released</a> more information on the Houston airport shooter and none of it backs up Glenn Beck&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-houston-airport-shooting-i-could-guarantee-you-set">guarantee</a>&rdquo; that the shooter is an &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-houston-airport-shooting-i-could-guarantee-you-set">uber left</a>,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/journalist-glenn-beck-wants-know-if-airport-shooter-ever-attended-any-occupy-wall-street-stu">Occupy Wall Street radical</a> who is trying to &ldquo;set up&rdquo; the NRA.&nbsp;</li>
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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) is the latest Republican to <a href="http://www.instantanalysis.net/latest-headlines-from-american-family-news/2013/05/03/wicker-i%E2%80%99ll-get-answers-on-pentagon%E2%80%99s-proselytization-policy">embrace</a> the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/congressmen-scalise-and-gohmert-fall-debunked-fox-news-story-supposed-plan-court-martial-chr">discredited allegation</a> that the military is preparing to court-martial Christians.&nbsp;</li>
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A bill to repeal Louisiana&rsquo;s Creationist education law was <a href="http://ncse.com/news/2013/05/repeal-effort-fails-again-louisiana-0014830">killed in committee</a>.</li>
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Does Brian Brown <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/02/brian-brown-gay-marriage-rhode-island-delaware/2129499/">seriously think</a> that most people would back laws <a href="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708688-nbcwsj-poll-53-percent-support-gay-marriage?chromedomain=nbcpolitics&lite">banning same-sex marriage</a> if only &ldquo;cultural elites&rdquo; didn&rsquo;t get in the way?&nbsp;</li>
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Phyllis Schlafly <a href="http://blog.eagleforum.org/2013/05/prayer-is-our-only-route-to-victory.html">prays</a> that God will speak to the Justices of the Supreme Court and tell them to oppose marriage equality.&nbsp;</li>
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Ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan of PFOX has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/conversion-therapy-new-jersey-jerry-sandusky_n_3210659.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices">launched</a> the &ldquo;Citizens Against the Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act.&rdquo;</li>
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WND&rsquo;s Ilana Mercer writes a <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/the-boston-bombers-boyhood-in-america/">column</a> about how gun violence is the result of our &ldquo;estrogen-infused&rdquo; society and somehow manages to fit in an attack on Jason Collins.</li>
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Brian TashmanBrian BrownGreg QuinlanLeftoversRoger Wicker42950Fri, 03 May 2013 17:25:07 -0400Greg QuinlanThe Awakening: More Right-Wing Preaching Needed to Save Americahttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/awakening-more-right-wing-preaching-needed-save-america
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<p>This past weekend&rsquo;s &ldquo;Awakening&rdquo; conference, sponsored by the far-right legal and advocacy group Liberty Counsel, attracted several hundred people to First Baptist Church in Oviedo, a suburb of Orlando, Florida. While the turnout was not big enough to fill half of the sanctuary, the event gave an insight into the state of mind of America&rsquo;s Religious Right leaders.</p>
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The overall message of the weekend was that America is in spiritual decline and on the verge of total destruction at the hands of dictator-emulating, jihad-enabling socialist President Barack Obama and his religious-freedom-hating allies in the radical homosexual lobby. Many of the speakers reveled in recounting their tales of being persecuted for having the courage to take on left-wing radicals.</div>
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America, or conservative America, is at war &ndash; at war with militant Islam, secular humanism, abortionists, a &ldquo;radical homosexual activist movement,&rdquo; and with Satan, who inspires those movements.</li>
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President Obama is leading America down the road to socialist tyranny.</li>
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Public schools are left-wing indoctrination centers and there&rsquo;s no excuse for Christian parents to send their students to a public school. Christian educators should treat public schools as a mission field.</li>
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Conservative political losses among Hispanics and youth are due to lousy public education, media bias, and bad messaging by conservatives. Conservatives can win them over with better messaging and outreach.</li>
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Political action alone will not be enough to save America &ndash; only a religious revival and Great Awakening will turn America around, and that requires conservative preachers to be much more aggressive in their preaching, since so much of the church is lukewarm and preaching a useless &ldquo;happy-clappy&rdquo; Jesus.</li>
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In addition to the Religious Right leaders profiled in our <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-headline-conference-911-sandy-hook-truther-birthers-and-anti-gay-activists" target="_blank"> preview </a> of the conference, participants heard from Sen. Marco Rubio (via video) and from Rep. Michelle Bachmann (in person). Rubio thanked people for their activism on behalf of &ldquo;traditional values&rdquo; and encouraged them to keep at it. Bachmann, who received the &ldquo;Great American Patriot Award&rdquo; from Liberty Counsel&rsquo;s Mat Staver, continued her well-documented record of blithely lying about her political opponents, saying that President Obama did not send a delegation to Margaret Thatcher&rsquo;s funeral, which Bachmann attended as part of a House of Representatives delegation. (In <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/us-usa-britain-thatcher-funeral-idUSBRE93E1ES20130415">fact</a> the Obama administration sent former Secretaries of State George Schultz and James Baker to the funeral, along with other diplomatic representatives.) Bachmann said Americans have to choose between a free America and an oppressive America. &ldquo;We need to recognize the desperate situation of our condition,&rdquo; she said, and need to focus on &ldquo;spiritual warfare.&rdquo; She called on Christians to make September 11, 2013 a day of fasting and humbling themselves before God.</div>
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Like last year&rsquo;s Awakening, the opening session focused on the importance of reaching out to the growing constituency of American Latinos. Salem radio official and conservative activist Tony Calatayud warned that American elections will be decided by Hispanics for decades to come. American Hispanics, he said, have been &ldquo;kidnapped&rdquo; by the Left; he lamented the fact that Cubans in Miami are no longer voting overwhelmingly for Republicans.</div>
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Speakers at right-wing events are fond of claiming that Hispanics are &ldquo;naturally&rdquo; conservative and should be voting for Republicans, despite repeated polling evidence to the contrary. Calatayud said Hispanics &ldquo;have this crazy notion that a man should be married to a woman.&rdquo; (In reality, a majority of Latinos <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/Race/Latinos-Religion-and-Campaign-2012.aspx" target="_blank"> favors </a> marriage equality, though most Hispanic evangelicals are opposed.) Staver said the Hispanic community could be a &ldquo;firewall for our values.&rdquo; In the real world, Hispanic voters did indeed provide a firewall in 2012, but it was on behalf of Democratic senators in key states.</div>
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Rev. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/samuel-rodriguez">Samuel Rodriguez</a>,&nbsp;who heads the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, gave a version of the same stump speech he has been giving for years, including his line that Hispanics are in America &ldquo;to bring panic to the kingdom of darkness in the name of Jesus Christ.&rdquo; Echoing Rodriguez, &ldquo;prophet&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/cindy-jacobs" target="_blank"> Cindy Jacobs </a> said God had brought Latinos to America to teach &ldquo;us&rdquo; something. &ldquo;God has given them the playing field,&rdquo; she said, and Anglo Christians need to be humble and willing to learn from them. Christians are a family that needs to learn to function together as a family, she said, and that includes voting &ldquo;consistent with our Father&rsquo;s family values.&rdquo; Rodriguez, who is formally allied with the far-right Liberty Counsel but promotes himself as a Latino mash-up of Martin Luther King and Billy Graham, is among evangelicals who are pushing for comprehensive immigration reform in the hopes that its passage would clear the way for more Latino citizens to vote Republican.</div>
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Neither Rodriguez nor Rubio made much mention of immigration reform, but a questioner made the division among conservatives evident when he cited Rush Limbaugh&rsquo;s assertion that reform would create 11 million new Democratic voters. Calatayud&rsquo;s response was that they wouldn&rsquo;t all vote for Democrats if Republicans did a good job reaching out to them. He said conservative Salem broadcasting now has seven Spanish language radio stations and he hinted at a much bigger project in the works, a conservative TV station or network along the lines of a Spanish language Fox News.</div>
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Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico, a member of the Tea Party caucus in the House of Representatives, said he gets elected in his heavily Hispanic district by <a href="http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/shoe_leather_service" target="_blank"> spending </a> a lot of time in the community; he was refreshingly blunt about the fact that many of his congressional colleagues don&rsquo;t &ldquo;get it&rdquo; and aren&rsquo;t likely to. The solution, he said, was to elect more people like him who do.</div>
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Many speakers insisted that there can be &ldquo;no compromise&rdquo; on civil unions or marriage equality because it is a &ldquo;zero sum game&rdquo; in which advances in LGBT equality come at the expense of religious liberty.</div>
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Rena Lindevaldsen, an associate dean at Liberty University law school, talked about Christian business owners getting into trouble for violating anti-discrimination laws by refusing to serve gay couples and warned things could get worse. &ldquo;If civil government has the authority to fine you,&rdquo; she warned, &ldquo;the same authority can put you in jail.&rdquo;</div>
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Liberty Counsel&rsquo;s Matt Barber complained that young people have bought gays&rsquo; &ldquo;hijacking&rdquo; of the civil rights movement &ldquo;hook, line, and inker.&rdquo; Barber said gay activists are &ldquo;shamelessly using&rdquo; bullying as a &ldquo;Trojan horse&rdquo; to get their indoctrination into the schools. Same-sex marriage, he said, is the head of the spear in the culture war, a &ldquo;hammer&rdquo; to destroy religious freedom and silence dissent. It&rsquo;s not really about marriage for homosexuals, he said. &ldquo;Their goal is not to have the white picket fence, their goal is to burn down the white picket fence.&rdquo;</div>
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While Awakening speakers did assert that their opposition to gay rights was an expression of their &ldquo;love&rdquo; for &ldquo;people with same-sex attraction,&rdquo; they didn&rsquo;t try to pretend, as NOM often does in the political arena, that their opposition is not grounded in religious belief. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all about God,&rdquo; said Barber. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all about an attack and rebellion against God, against God&rsquo;s plan for humanity.&rdquo; Bachmann said marriage &ldquo;is one man, one woman &ndash; because God says it is. Not because it&rsquo;s poll tested &ndash; because God says it is.&rdquo; Lindevaldsen said &ldquo;there is no compromise&hellip;once you start down that path you are condoning that which God says is sinful and you are putting the government with the authority to now say that which is sinful is good.&rdquo; Rick Scarborough said, &ldquo;now we debate whether marriage shall be between a man and a woman. That&rsquo;s been settled already. That decision was handed down by the supreme judge of the universe, and no court has a say in that.&rdquo;</div>
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Matt Barber said gay activists&rsquo; attacks on Christians reflect their hatred of Jesus. &ldquo;They hate the way, which is Christ, they hate the truth, which they are in conflict with, and they hate the life.&rdquo; He added, &ldquo;the wages of sin is death,&rdquo; adding, &ldquo;The homosexual lifestyle astronomically from a statistical standpoint leads to death.&rdquo;</div>
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<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/greg-quinlan" target="_blank">Greg Quinlan</a>, a self-described ex-gay who heads PFOX, asserted that homosexuality is &ldquo;outside God&rsquo;s intention.&rdquo; He complained about the &ldquo;Demoncrats&rdquo; support for anti-reparative-therapy laws. Asked about anti-bullying laws, he said: &ldquo;This is fascism! This is fascism! We need to put a swastika on it.&rdquo; He complained that New Jersey activists had exploited gay boy&rsquo;s suicide. &ldquo;One boy jumps off the George Washington Bridge,&rdquo; he said, and gay activists seized the moment and turned it to their advantage.</div>
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Several speakers said Christian parents have no business sending their children to public schools. Right-wing radio personality and anti-gay activist <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bradlee-dean" target="_blank"> Bradlee Dean</a>, who markets his presentation to public schools, called public schools a &ldquo;cesspool of indoctrination&rdquo; and said &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t justify having your kid in a public school.&rdquo; Taking the Bible out of schools, he said, opened the door to Satanism. He warned that the International Baccalaureate program used in some schools is teaching children to disarm and promoting homosexuality.</div>
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The Southern Baptists&rsquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/richard-land" target="_blank"> Richard Land </a> also said Christian parents should not hand their children off to public schools, which are &ldquo;a lousy place for Christian kids.&rdquo; Rodriguez said Christian schools and the homeschooling movement are a kind of firewall against the public education system. He added that &ldquo;serious Christ followers&rdquo; are needed as teachers, principals, and administrators, who should view the schools as mission fields.</div>
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<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/cynthia-dunbar" target="_blank">Cynthia Dunbar</a>, who was part of a Religious Right group on the Texas Board of Education during recent textbook battles, said education is the most important battleground, because conservatives can&rsquo;t win when the vast majority of children are being indoctrinated in a &ldquo;socialized&rdquo; education system.</div>
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Several speakers and activists denounced the <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/" target="_blank"> Common Core </a> standards, developed and adopted by many governors and state education officials. As RWW has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/common-core" target="_blank"> reported</a>, the Common Core is a new target of right-wing conspiracy theories on public education.</div>
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Anti-Islam activist <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/pamela-geller" target="_blank"> Pamela Geller </a> warned that Obama has &ldquo;enabled and empowered&rdquo; the ideology of jihad. It was no accident, she said, that the Obama administration supported a &ldquo;Muslim brotherhood revolution&rdquo; in Egypt to replace the former secular government there.</div>
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Bradlee Dean said that Obama was emulating Mao:</div>
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&ldquo;This president is emulating dictators. Do you not understand that he is not playing games? If you look at Mao Tse-tung, this boy is emulating Mao Tse-tung to a T. You know what Mao Tse-tung did, he went to the younger generation, he overthrew the Republic of China to implement what? Democracy. Who is the last president that actually acknowledged that we are a republic? Reagan. Every president since has continuously inundated the next generation with the fact that we are a democracy. That is dangerous, guys.&rdquo;</div>
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Dean talked about those killed in 20th Century wars, saying &ldquo;many of those boys in those graveyards, hundreds of thousands of them all across the country, fought, bled and died fighting against the ideology that the American people are tolerating today.&rdquo;</div>
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Jan Morgan, a right-wing social media pro-gun <a href="http://janmorganmedia.com/" target="_blank"> activist</a>, was a late addition to the program. She almost didn&rsquo;t make it because of an unfortunate incident at the airport when TSA found a few stray bullets and a couple of four inch folding tactical combat knives in her purse (she teaches self-defense classes). She railed against the Obama administration, liberal media, and the &ldquo;gun grabbers.&rdquo; She said mass murders take place in gun-free zones (but she didn&rsquo;t mention the signs on doors of the church that said no firearms were allowed inside). Morgan even seemed to take issue with some gun advocates&rsquo; attempt to shift the focus to mental health issues, saying she didn&rsquo;t want the federal government deciding who is fit to own a gun; soon she said liberal doctors empowered by Obamacare would say anyone who believes in Jesus Christ could not be mentally stable.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.duggarfamily.com/" target="_blank"> Duggars</a>, Jim Bob and Michelle, a couple made famous by a reality TV show focused on their ever-growing family, spoke about their efforts to outlaw abortion. Jim Bob Duggar praised Janet Porter&rsquo;s efforts to promote a &ldquo;heartbeat bill.&rdquo; Although Porter has failed to win its passage in Ohio, Duggar celebrated the passage of similar legislation in Arkansas and North Dakota.</div>
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Keith Fournier, representing conservative Catholics at the conference, said &ldquo;life&rdquo; is the lens through which all issues should be examined, calling it the first pillar of collaboration between conservative evangelicals and Catholics.</div>
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A major theme of the Awakening conference was the need for conservative Christians, especially pastors, to be more politically active, but that in the end politics could not save America unless there is a third Great Awakening. The notion that &ldquo;the next Great Awakening starts here&rdquo; has been a staple of Religious Right gatherings in recent years, as has the idea that the fault for America&rsquo;s problems is a &ldquo;lukewarm&rdquo; church with pastors who aren&rsquo;t living up to the example set by earlier Religious Right leaders like Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy.</div>
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Fournier said America had slipped from secularism into a &ldquo;new paganism&rdquo; and called for Christians not to view America as &ldquo;post-Christian&rdquo; but as &ldquo;pre-Christian,&rdquo; primed for a new missionary period.</div>
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Rick Scarborough said, &ldquo;In a nation such as this it is a sin for a preacher not to be speaking to the great political issues of our day. That&rsquo;s not an option. And if your pastor will not do that, bless him with your absence.&rdquo; Land said &ldquo;there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with America that a good old-fashioned revival won&rsquo;t fix.&rdquo;</div>
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Boykin warned that the country is &ldquo;on the precipice of total destruction.&rdquo; The church, he said, should be the dominant influence in our society, but instead it is calling good evil, and evil good, and &ldquo;it&rsquo;s killing us as a nation.&rdquo; It is time, he said, for the church to &ldquo;rise up.&rdquo;</div>
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Harry Jackson said &ldquo;we as a nation are under the chastening hand of God&rdquo; because of &ldquo;bad choices&rdquo; Americans, including Christians, have made.</div>
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&ldquo;We&rsquo;re at a place now where the GOP can&rsquo;t help us. And the Democratic Party doesn&rsquo;t want us. And we&rsquo;re stuck between a rock and a hard place and we&rsquo;re going to need a visitation from the Holy Spirit to see America transformed&hellip;Repentance is in order because the church has become the carnal church in America&hellip;.What we need now is that revival and awe to be the substructure or the foundation of what we do. Nothing else will do. We don&rsquo;t need another television personality, we don&rsquo;t need radio ministries that awe and get us inspired. We need church planting, but church planting without the fire of God will not make a difference. We don&rsquo;t need prophetic preaching unless it turns the hearts of masses of men. We need the kind of authoritative pulpits thundering the glory of God that will see whole cities shift in our land.&rdquo;</div>
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<strong>More to Come</strong></div>
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If you missed the Awakening, have no fear. The Family Research Council&rsquo;s conference for pastors who want to &ldquo;transform America,&rdquo; Watchmen on the Wall, takes place in DC May 22-24. Religious Right activists and Republican allies will gather at the "<a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/org/3180873334?s=13113829" target="_blank">Road to Majority</a>"&nbsp;conference sponsored by by Ralph Reed&rsquo;s Faith and Freedom Coalition in Washington on June 13-15. And the biggest Religious Right political event of the year, the <a href="http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/" target="_blank"> Values Voter Summit </a> sponsored by the Family Research Council and a collection of other far-right groups, will be held in Washington October 11-13.</div>
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<p>Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will be joining some of the most extreme right-wing activists in the country at the upcoming <a href="http://www.theawakeningusa.com/">Awakening 2013</a> conference, which is organized by the Liberty University-affiliated Liberty Counsel. Along with Bachmann, Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) and Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are scheduled to take part in the Religious Right gathering.</p>
<p>Just how radical are the conference&rsquo;s leaders?</p>
<p>The fact that it is hosted by Liberty Counsel, the anti-gay group led by Mat Staver and Matt Barber that has been <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-law-school-and-others-hit-rico-lawsuit-over-lisa-miller-kidnapping-case">implicated in the Lisa Miller kidnapping case</a>, is the first clue to the Awakening&rsquo;s far-right bent. On top of that, the event includes 9/11 and Sandy Hook truther Bradlee Dean, self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs and convicted domestic abuser and anti-women&rsquo;s rights activist Timothy Johnson.</p>
<p><em>Anti-Gay</em></p>
<p><strong>Mat</strong> <strong>Staver</strong></p>
<p>The host of the Awakening conference, Staver has a long anti-gay record. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-solution-our-economic-crisis">blamed</a> the 2008 financial crisis on banks that &ldquo;actively promoted the homosexual agenda&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14100&PRID=797">said</a> lawmakers who support marriage equality &ldquo;are not competent for public office.&rdquo; Staver has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-church-must-rise-if-supreme-court-backs-marriage-equality">repeatedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2009/04/audio-as-our-rights-become-marrier-our-opposition-becomes-scarier.html">called</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death-liberty-counsel-issues-call-revolution-nonviolently-course">for</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/if-it-not-hyperbole-what-it">a</a> &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-supreme-court-could-spark-second-revolution-and-civil-war-over-marriage-equality">revolution</a>&rdquo; to protest gay equality and warned that gay rights laws will&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cpac-marriage-equality-will-create-generation-violent-criminals">increase violent crime</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mat-staver-enda-result-death-individuals">kill people</a> and eventually&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-legalizing-gay-marriage-will-be-beginning-end-america">destroy America</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-gay-rights-will-destroy-western-civilization">western civilization</a>. He&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-under-obama-us-one-worlds-immoral-leaders">defended</a> a Malawi law criminalizing homosexuality and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mat-staver-accuses-obama-backing-forced-abortion-funding-and-forced-homosexuality">argued</a> that Obama supports &ldquo;forced homosexuality.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Matt Barber</strong></p>
<p>The deputy leader of Liberty Counsel, Barber has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-suicide-rate-high-among-gay-youth-because-they-know-what-they-are-doing-unnatural-wro">argued</a> that suicide rates are higher among LGBT youth because they &ldquo;look inward and know that what they are doing is unnatural, is wrong [and] is immoral.&rdquo; He has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-tolerance-homosexuality-cancer-brings-down-societies">described</a> homosexuality as a &ldquo;cancer&rdquo; that prompted Noah&rsquo;s flood and will ultimately <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gay-rights-will-bring-about-communist-satanic-domination"> lead to Communism </a> . Barber has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-warn-gay-rights-will-bring-about-communist-satanic-domination">said</a> that Satan is behind gay rights efforts, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/satan-behind-campaign-let-gays-join-boy-scouts">asserting</a> that demonic &ldquo;spiritual pressure&rdquo; is driving the campaign to end the Boy Scouts of America&rsquo;s ban on gay members. He has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matt-barber-says-there-no-evidence-anti-lgbt-violence-discrimination">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matt-barber-and-janet-mefferd-dismiss-violence-against-lgbt-community-nonsense">denied</a> that LGBT persons face violence or discrimination, while&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-harvey-agree-glsen-tacitly-advocated-adult-child-sex">frequently</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-and-reisman-suggest-all-gay-people-are-pedophiles-or-advocate-pedophilia">arguing</a> that the gay community is bent on molesting children. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/matt-barber-praises-pastor-behind-ugandas-kill-gays-bill">praised</a> the chief supporter of Uganda&rsquo;s &lsquo;Kill the Gays&rsquo; bill.</p>
<p><strong>Shawn Akers</strong></p>
<p>Liberty Counsel&rsquo;s Shawn Akers has joined Staver and Barber in opposing gay rights efforts, even when it comes to measures to prevent the bullying of LGBT youth, which he <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/big-bullies-how-the-religious-right-trying-to-make-schools-safe-for-bullies-and-dangero#playing">called</a> &ldquo;a form of indoctrination and reeducation that smacks of socialist and Communist countries.&rdquo; Akers instead accused gay rights advocates of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-gay-rights-advocates-are-real-bullies">bullying</a> Christians, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/akers-gay-activism-religion-regnerus-study-treated-heresy">turning</a> &ldquo;homosexual activism&rdquo; into a religion and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-dan-savage-encouraging-violence-against-christians-nazis-did-jews">persecuting</a> Christians in the same way as Adolf Hitler persecuted Jews.</p>
<p><strong>Rena Lindevaldsen</strong></p>
<p>Lindevaldsen, a Liberty Counsel attorney and Liberty University law professor, has been <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-law-school-and-others-hit-rico-lawsuit-over-lisa-miller-kidnapping-case">closely implicated</a> in the kidnapping of Isabella Miller, whose mother <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/lisa-miller">Lisa Miller</a> fled with her to Central America in order to stop her former same-sex partner from having custody. Lindevaldsen has declared that Satan is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-university-law-prof-gay-rights-satan-obviously-doesn%E2%80%99t-want-us-look-truth-scripture"> behind gay rights efforts </a> and &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-satan-plants-seed-homosexuality">plant[s] the seed</a>&rdquo; of homosexuality in people.</p>
<p><strong>Bradlee Dean</strong></p>
<p>Dean, a Minnesota-based Religious Right activist and&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.pfaw.org/content/from-fringe-figure-movement-leader-michele-bachmanns-far-right-roots">close Bachmann ally</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/07/27/280640/bradlee-dean-never-calls-for-the-persecution-of-gays-except-all-the-time/">extolled</a> Muslims who are &ldquo;calling for the executions of homosexuals in America&rdquo; as &ldquo;more moral&rdquo; than American Christians and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-mentors-and-praises-radio-hosts-who-claim-gays-are-committing-extended-suicide">applauded</a> African nations that imprison homosexuals. He has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/07/27/280640/bradlee-dean-never-calls-for-the-persecution-of-gays-except-all-the-time/">called</a> homosexuality &ldquo;a mental illness&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann%E2%80%99s-favorite-ministry-joins-fischer-link-gays-holocaust">blamed</a> gays for the Holocaust. Dean also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/close-bachmann-ally-bradlee-dean-suggests-sandy-hook-was-government-plot">believes</a> that the government staged the Sandy Hook and Aurora mass murders to push gun control policies and that it was also behind the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing.</p>
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<p><strong>William Murray</strong></p>
<p>Government Is Not God PAC (GING-PAC) head William Murray has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-obama-jihad-against-jews-christians">warned</a> that President Obama, whom he calls a &ldquo;dangerous racist,&rdquo; has &ldquo;stopped waging a war on Islam terrorism&rdquo; in order to pursue a &ldquo;jihad against non-Islamic groups&mdash;both Jews and Christians.&rdquo; He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/murray-social-security-war-traditional-family-homosexuality">claimed</a> that the establishment of Social Security led to a decline in morality that meant &ldquo;more young men destroy their lives in homosexuality.&rdquo; He has blamed gay people for everything from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/william-murray-blames-gay-diplomats-turmoil-middle-east">turmoil in the Middle East</a> to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gays-cause-train-crashes">train crashes</a>. Murray&rsquo;s GING-PAC has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/government-not-god-pac-if-homosexuals-win-bill-rights-dies">charged</a> gay rights activists with plotting to destroy the Bill of Rights and recently <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/government-not-god-pac-warns-rob-portman-his-son-may-now-die-aids-should-go-ex-gay-therapy">urged</a> Sen. Rob Portman to send his openly gay son to ex-gay therapy so he won&rsquo;t die of AIDS.</p>
<p><strong>Greg Quinlan </strong></p>
<p>At the Awakening 2012, Quinlan <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/homosexual-tornado-destroy-america-awakening-2012">endorsed Lou Engle&rsquo;s call</a> to create a prayer movement to confront the &ldquo;homosexual and abortion tornadoes&rdquo; that are &ldquo;coming to destroy America.&rdquo; More recently, he&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2851871397.html">linked homosexuality to pedophilia</a> and called same-sex marriage &ldquo;<a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8012170779.html">a ban on heterosexual rights</a>.&rdquo; He has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-head-accuses-gays-and-lesbians-sexual-cannibalism">argued</a> that gays and lesbians are experiencing &ldquo;sexual cannibalism&rdquo; and promote suicide among LGBT youth in order to succeed in &ldquo;making martyrs out of the kids that we&rsquo;re recruiting to behave as homosexuals.&rdquo; Quinlan&rsquo;s organization, Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-distributing-misinformation-maryland-students">pushes</a> harmful ex-gay therapy for children.</p>
<p><strong>Rick Scarborough </strong></p>
<p>Last year at the Awakening, Scarborough&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-bart-simpson-rachel-maddow-brokeback-mountain">blamed</a> Rachel Maddow and&nbsp;<em>Brokeback Mountain</em> for America&rsquo;s ills. These were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/when-obama-declares-lbgt-shame-month-right-will-support-it">far</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.visionamerica.us/article/give-me-a-break-this-is-unity/">from</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/blood-martyrs-predicted-following-hate-crimes-protections">his</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/latino-democratic-councilman-partners-anti-latino-pastor-rick-scarborough">only</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/whos-who-values-voter-summit-2012">anti-gay</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-calling-sodomites-gay-abuse-language">statements</a>. He has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-god-allowed-benghazi-attack-because-america-mired-sin">blamed</a> gay marriage and abortion rights for the Benghazi attack, and at Awakening 2011 described AIDS as <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-aids-gods-judgment-immoral-act">divine punishment</a> for homosexuality. Scarborough also invited controversy when he claimed that the growth of the Latino population <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-if-country-becomes-30-percent-hispanic-we-will-no-longer-be-america">threatens America</a> and that non-white Americans will <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-worries-more-non-white-families-will-mean-less-christians-america">endanger</a> the country&rsquo;s Christian heritage.</p>
<p><strong>Judith Reisman</strong></p>
<p>Reisman, a visiting Liberty University professor who is fighting to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-u-professor-judith-reisman-wants-pornography-outlawed">criminalize pornography</a>, has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/labarbera-homosexual-activists-doing-to-christians-what-nazis-used-used-to-do-to-jews">claimed</a> that schools are brainwashing children into becoming gay and that gay rights advocates are emulated the Nazis. She also said that the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network&rsquo;s Gay-Straight Alliances are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ten-most-absurd-stories-santorum-worldnetdaily">modeled after the Hitler Youth</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/reisman-sex-ed-children-prostitutes-">promote pedophilia</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Harry Jackson</strong></p>
<p>Jackson has played a leading role in campaigns against marriage equality in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, fights he described as a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-brings-down-queen-heaven-behind-same-sex-marriage-perversion"> spiritual battle against Satanic forces</a>. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-brings-down-queen-heaven-behind-same-sex-marriage-perversion">said</a> that a demon called the Queen of Heaven is behind the push for same-sex marriage, which he warned &ldquo;corrupts, perverts and pollutes&rdquo; society. Jackson has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gay-marriage-part-satanic-plot-destroy-family">called</a> marriage equality &ldquo;a Satanic plot to destroy our seed&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-recruit-children-christians-steal-back-rainbow">warned</a> that gay rights advocates &ldquo;want to recruit your kids&rdquo; and are <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harry-jackson-radical-gay-activists-america-times-hitler">targeting</a> young people &ldquo;just like during the times of Hitler.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><em>Anti-Women&rsquo;s Rights</em></p>
<p><strong>Timothy Johnson</strong></p>
<p>As head of the Fredrick Douglass Foundation, Johnson has worked on GOP and social conservative outreach to the African American community. For example, he worked with Religious Right groups to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/top-vawa-opponents-partnered-convicted-wife-beater-and-group-tied-mail-order-bride-firm">oppose</a> the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. He was an interesting choice for the job, since he himself is a <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/147010/is_the_gop%27s_point_man_for_recruiting_black_candidates_hiding_a_fake_ph.d._and_a_violent_past"> convicted domestic abuser</a>, and was arrested a second time for spousal abuse two years after his felony conviction.</p>
<p><strong>Janet Porter</strong></p>
<p>Porter is the architect behind anti-choice &ldquo;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/gop-takes-its-war-women-states#heartbeat">heartbeat laws</a>,&rdquo; which effectively criminalize abortion. Such laws recently passed in North Dakota and Arkansas and have been considered in numerous other states. She has called on conservative Christians to gain control of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/janet-porter-prays-control-government">government</a> and the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/janet-porter-prays-control-over-media">media</a>, warning that under President Obama, conservatives and Christians <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ten-most-absurd-stories-santorum-worldnetdaily">may be put in concentration camps or starved to death</a>. Porter <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porter-asks-god-prevent-obama-taking-office">prayed</a> after the 2008 election that God would prevent Obama, whom she <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/definitive-proof-communist-conspiracy">thinks</a> might be a Communist spy from Russia, from taking office, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/vote-obama-go-hell">insisted</a> that God will send Obama supporters to Hell.</p>
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<p><strong>Doug Giles</strong></p>
<p>Giles has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2006/04/25/conservative-columnist-and-radio-host-giles-slu/135496">smeared</a> feminists as &ldquo;misogynists with vaginas&rdquo; who urge women to have &ldquo;their vagina turned into a sexual turnstile&rdquo; and become &ldquo;the village bicycle.&rdquo; &ldquo;Have you ever seen a feminist around a womanly woman and not one of her butch buddies who's sporting a Tim Allen haircut?,&rdquo; Giles wrote. &ldquo;Question: If feminists and lesbians hate men like they do, why do they try to look like us?&rdquo; Giles has used similarly harsh language to describe <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/09/21/father-of-filmmaker-behind-acorn-videos-has-bac/154827">progressives</a>, &ldquo;<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2009/01/25/obama%E2%80%99s_evangelicals_the_liberals%E2%80%99_new_useful_idiots/page/full/">the radical homosexual agenda</a>&rdquo; and <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/douggiles/2009/08/08/my_fishy_letter_of_encouragement_for_the_town_hall_rebels?page=full&comments=true"> President Obama</a>, who is the subject of Giles&rsquo;&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/09/acorn_smasher_hannah_giles_dad.php">weird music videos</a>.</p>
<p><em>Anti-Muslim Activists</em></p>
<p><strong>Pamela</strong> <strong>Geller</strong></p>
<p>A <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/07/14/memo-to-media-pamela-geller-does-not-belong-on/167700">conspiracy theorist blogger</a>, Geller has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/pam-geller-obama-muslim-mosque">repeatedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/geller-obama-muhammad-may-be-your-prophet-hes-not-mine">suggested</a> that President Obama is a Muslim &mdash; <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/pamela-geller">describing</a> him as a &ldquo;muhammadan&rdquo; who &ldquo;wants jihad to win&rdquo; and supports a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/geller-how-long-do-jews-have-obamas-america">genocide against Jews</a> &mdash; and the &ldquo;<a href="http://gawker.com/5071373/bombshell-obama-malcom-x-love-child">love child</a>&rdquo; of Malcolm X, &ldquo;<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/07/25/fox-news-has-mainstreamed-pam-gellers-islamopho/183150">a bastard</a>, literally and figuratively.&rdquo; She even <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/">attempted to justify</a> far-right Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik&rsquo;s attack on a left-wing youth camp, going so far as to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-muslim-bloggers-smear-victims-norway-attack">blame the victims</a>. Geller has also called for the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:048y7CxczXIJ:atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/erev-yom-muslim-riot-attack-jews-in-jerusalem-policemen-wounded-in-temple-mt-riots.html+http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/"> destruction </a> of the Dome of the Rock and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/08/11/geller-compares-nyc-mosque-to-building-kkk-shri/169076">likened</a> an Islamic community center to a Ku Klux Klan &ldquo;shrine.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Boykin</strong></p>
<p>A former general now serving as vice president of the Family Research Council, Boykin believes the U.S. is engaging in a&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/16/opinion/oe-arkin16">holy war against Islam</a> and was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/world/bush-says-he-disagrees-with-general-s-remarks-on-religion.html">reprimanded</a> by former President George W. Bush for his anti-Muslim speeches. Boykin has called Islam an &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-islam-evil">evil</a>&rdquo; faith that &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-islam-should-not-be-protected-under-first-amendment">should not be protected under the First Amendment</a>.&rdquo; At one point, he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-tries-backtrack-his-no-mosques-america-comment">advocated</a> the banning of mosques. He has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/company-rick-perry-keeps-jerry-boykin-and-obamas-brownshirt-army">charged</a> President Obama with creating a Brownshirts-style paramilitary and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/boykin-obama-support-infiltration-muslim-brotherhood-government">aiding</a> a Muslim Brotherhood &ldquo;infiltration&rdquo; of the U.S. government.</p>
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<p><strong>Frank Gaffney</strong></p>
<p>Gaffney is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-goes-birther">birther</a> who <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-tries-defend-his-obamas-secret-muslim-claims">believes</a> that President Obama is a &ldquo;secret Muslim&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-obama-administration-pursuing-sharia-blasphemy-agenda-our-enemies">accuses</a> the president of supporting Sharia law and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-obama-profound-affinity-islamism">pushing</a> &ldquo;efforts to promote Islamism.&rdquo; He has even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-hagel-just-like-iranian-agent">said</a> that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel behaves like &ldquo;an Iranian agent&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gaffney-troubled-obama-cia-pick-speaks-arabic">urged</a> senators to oppose the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA because Brennan knows how to speak Arabic. Gaffney also helped <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-smear-huma-abedin-fringe-conspiracy-halls-congress">engineer</a> Bachmann&rsquo;s witch hunt targeting Muslim officials in government. His views are so extreme that he has&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/15/144098/frank-gaffney-banned-from-cpac/">been</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/17/frank_gaffney_banned_from_another_conservative_d_c_meeting.html">banned</a> from two leading conservative gatherings.</p>
<p><em>Apostles and Prophets</em></p>
<p><strong>Rick Joyner</strong></p>
<p>Joyner, who considers himself a prophet, has warned that the gay rights movement is a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-satan-using-gays-and-other-useful-idiots-destroy-america">Satanic push</a> to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-gay-rights-forbid-marriage-male-female">ban heterosexual marriage</a>. Joyner <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-hurricane-katrina-was-gods-judgment-homosexuality">claimed</a> that Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment for homosexuality and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-our-president-barack-obama-wicked-man">agreed</a> with a fellow prophet, Bob Jones, that Hurricane Sandy was judgment for same-sex marriage. He also believes that California will soon face a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-joyner-west-coast-doomed">divine</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joyner-america-under-judgment-and-god-going-destroy-california">reckoning</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Cindy Jacobs</strong></p>
<p>Another self-proclaimed prophet, Jacobs <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-satan-seeks-destroy-gods-model-family-and-install-tyranny">told Awakening 2012 attendees</a> last year that Satan is behind the push for same-sex marriage. Jacobs has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-birds-are-dying-because-dadt-repeal">asserted</a> that the repeal of Don&rsquo;t Ask Don&rsquo;t Tell led to freak bird deaths and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-obama-anti-biblical-floods-fires">blamed</a> Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;anti-biblical&rdquo; decisions for natural disasters. She <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-response-broke-curse-native-american-cannibals">lauded</a> another Religious Right gathering, Rick Perry&rsquo;s The Response, for breaking the curse of cannibal Native Americans over Texas, and has taken credit for thwarting several <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-our-prayers-stop-terrorism">terrorist</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-claims-have-thwarted-numerous-terrorist-attacks">attacks</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-cindy-jacobs-prevented-two-african-coups">coups</a>.</p>
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Brian TashmanAwakening 2013Bradlee DeanC4Cindy JacobsFrank Gaffney Greg QuinlanHarry Jackson Janet Porter (née Folger)Jerry BoykinJudith ReismanLiberty Counsel Mat Staver Matt Barber Michele BachmannPamela GellerRena LindevaldsenRick JoynerRick Scarborough Shawn AkersTimothy JohnsonWilliam Murray Fighting the Right42754Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:45:08 -0400Greg QuinlanRight Wing Leftovers - 1/30/13http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-13013
<ul> <li> Glenn Beck <a href="http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=25579361&topic_id=23419450">calls for</a> the formation of third party called the American Independence Party ... until he learns that one already <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Independent_Party">exists</a> which ran segregationist George Wallace for president.</li> <p> <li> Oh good, another <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/06/paul-broun-evolution-big-bang_n_1944808.html">ultra right-wing</a> House Republican is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/01/30/paul-broun-appears-to-be-running-for-senate/?wprss=rss_politics">planning</a> to run for the US Senate.</li> <p> <li> Mike Huckabee <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJnE6YWXsh0">begs the students</a> at Liberty University to stand up and say "no" to the "unholy and ungodly" policies dominating American politics.</li> <p> <li> Greg Quinlan <a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/2851871397.html">says</a> letting gays serve in the Boy Scouts will lead to widespread sexual molestation.</li> <p> <li> Finally, the <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/talking-about-love-and-equality-88962/">quote of the day</a> from Rev. Mark Creech: "No one who is thoughtful can possibly believe that something as unnatural as the act of a man placing that part of his body which was designed to project life into that part of another man's body meant to expel death could possibly be a healthy lifestyle under any circumstances."</li></ul>
Kyle MantylaGreg QuinlanLeftoversMark Creech Mike Huckabee 42089Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:34:46 -0400Greg QuinlanAnti-Gay Leaders Call for Prayer Movement to stop 'Homosexual Tornado' coming to 'Destroy America'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/homosexual-tornado-destroy-america-awakening-2012
<p>At the Awakening 2012&rsquo;s panel on the &ldquo;LGBT Agenda,&rdquo; Lou Engle, who was not a panelist but an audience member, called for Religious Right leaders to launch a &ldquo;massive concerted prayer movement&rdquo; to counter the demonic &ldquo;principalities and powers&rdquo; behind gay rights activism. Panelists including Rena Lindevaldsen and Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel, Greg Quinlan of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, and former Texas board of education member Cynthia Dunbar jumped over each other in expressing their hope that Engle or another conservative would lead such a movement to stop the &ldquo;two tornadoes coming to destroy America,&rdquo; which he said are &ldquo;the homosexual and abortion tornadoes.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Engle, who brought <em>The Call</em> prayer rally to Uganda to help <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/2531/lou_engle%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98the_call_uganda%E2%80%99_rallies_support_for_anti-homosexuality_bill_/">rally</a> <a href="http://current.com/shows/vanguard/blog/92505752_what-prop-8-supporter-lou-engle-really-said-in-uganda.htm">support</a> for the country&rsquo;s proposed &ldquo;kill the gays bill,&rdquo; lamented that he gets &ldquo;blasted&rdquo; over his anti-gay work and is &ldquo;haunted that God has not opened the door for me to go after this thing.&rdquo; Lindevaldsen agreed that &ldquo;we need a prayer movement because a spiritual battle is at the root of this.&rdquo;</p>
<p>It seems that Engle&rsquo;s first prayer initiative, StoneWall Now, a &ldquo;<a href="http://thekeyofdavid.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/praying-against-the-homosexual-agenda/">nation wide prayer movement</a>&rdquo; to &ldquo;stand in the gap crying to God to restrain the homosexual ideology&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t going so well as its website is <a href="http://www.stonewallnow.com/">offline</a>.</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Engle</strong>: I think we need a massive, concerted prayer movement to deal with principalities and powers and pray that God would release laborers into the harvest field. <br />
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<strong>Barber</strong>: If there is anybody in the room who is adept that leading that ...<br />
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<strong>Dunbar</strong>: You&rsquo;ve got that in your heart, with your spirit, and we&rsquo;re with you.<br />
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<strong>Quinlan</strong>: We need that.<br />
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<strong>Barber</strong>: Did you volunteer yourself, Lou?<br />
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<strong>Engle</strong>: In 2006, we did 50 days and 50 nights of intercession of seven young people, we were given a dream of two tornadoes coming to destroy America and they were the homosexual and abortion tornadoes. In the dream I was given a sight to raise up intercession to confront those tornadoes.<br />
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<strong>Quinlan</strong>: Please.<br />
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<strong>Engle</strong>: And Bound4Life was raised up but I'm haunted that God has not opened the door for me to go after this thing, I&rsquo;ve tried, I&rsquo;ve gotten blasted.<br />
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<strong>Barber</strong>: It&rsquo;s time.<br />
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<strong>Engle</strong>: I don&rsquo;t know how to do it but I am crying out to God for an answer.<br />
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<strong>Lindevaldsen</strong>: Meet with us afterwards ... we need a prayer movement because a spiritual battle is at the root of this. </blockquote>Brian TashmanAwakening 2012C4Cynthia DunbarGreg QuinlanLiberty Counsel Lou Engle Matt Barber PFOX Rena LindevaldsenFighting the Right39733Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:25:47 -0400Greg QuinlanPFOX Head Accuses Gays and Lesbians of 'Sexual Cannibalism'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-head-accuses-gays-and-lesbians-sexual-cannibalism
<p>Ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan of Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays (PFOX) and the New Jersey Family Policy Council, who recently <a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2012/02/audio-how-not-to-testify-at-a-hearing-with-greg-quinlan.html">testified</a> against a marriage equality bill in the New Jersey State Assembly, yesterday <a href="http://stevedeace.com/news/national-politics/deace-show-podcast-02-07-12/">told</a> talk show host Steve Deace that gays and lesbians are practicing &ldquo;sexual cannibalism.&rdquo; After a long diatribe about how child abuse and fractured parental relationships are responsible for homosexuality, Quinlan argued that same-sex relationships represent &ldquo;sexual, emotional cannibalization.&rdquo; Later in the show, Quinlan attacked anti-bullying programs and blamed cases of suicide among LGBT youth on the gay community because &ldquo;we&rsquo;re making martyrs out of the kids that we&rsquo;re recruiting to behave as homosexuals.&rdquo;</p>
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<blockquote> <strong>Quinlan</strong>: I like the word that you used there, &lsquo;cannibalized,&rsquo; because there is a scientific term that&rsquo;s called that, &lsquo;I want to have sex with that man so I can be like him, so I can become a part of him.&rsquo; It is a sexual, emotional cannibalization. &lsquo;That person has something I want, they look better than I do, they&rsquo;re more muscular than I am, they&rsquo;re more virile than I am, they have something I want,&rsquo; and it&rsquo;s a type of what we call an emotional or sexual cannibalism. I can&rsquo;t describe it any better than that. <br />
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<strong>Deace</strong>: What&rsquo;s wrong with anti-bullying? Greg, why wouldn&rsquo;t we want to stop kids from getting picked on or is there something else happening here?<br />
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<strong>Quinlan</strong>: It&rsquo;s an agenda. We&rsquo;re making martyrs out of kids that we&rsquo;re recruiting to behave as homosexuals when no one is born that way, and that&rsquo;s the problem and that&rsquo;s the issue.<br />
</blockquote>Brian TashmanAnti-GaybullyingEx-GayGreg QuinlanPFOX Steve Deace28468Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:05:27 -0400Greg QuinlanPFOX Distributing Misinformation to Maryland Studentshttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pfox-distributing-misinformation-maryland-students
<p>A public high school in Montgomery County, Maryland, is being <a href="http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/maryland/school-defends-friends-of-ex-gays-flyer-handed-out-to-students-020212">criticized</a> for distributing literature of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, a group tells gay youth to &ldquo;transition out of a homosexual identity&rdquo; even though the <a href="http://www.faithinamerica.org/reparative-therapy/">American Medical Association</a>, the <a href="http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/just-the-facts.aspx">American Psychological Association</a>, the <a href="http://www.clgs.org/official-statement-concerning-homosexuality-american-academy-pediatrics">American Academy of Pediatrics</a>, the <a href="http://www.socialworkers.org/diversity/lgb/reparative.asp?print=1">National Association of Social Workers</a> and the <a href="http://www.healthyminds.org/More-Info-For/GayLesbianBisexuals.aspx">American Psychiatric Association</a> all deny the effectiveness, safety and ethics of reparative therapy. While Religious Right groups <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/10/AR2006081001791.html">have sued for the right to distribute literature in Montgomery County schools</a>, like the PFOX flyer which propagates discredited and harmful misinformation about sexual orientation and gender identity, they have also sought to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/first-amendment-protection-only-those-who-believe">deny this right to groups they disagree with</a>.</p>
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<p>Their pamphlet<em> Preventing Bullying at Your School </em>says that kids become gay because people call them gay, and that later in their lives gay people bully those who &ldquo;decide to pursue alternatives to homosexuality&rdquo;:</p>
<blockquote> Many people, especially during adolescence, are called &ldquo;gay&rdquo; or other names even though they do not have same-sex attractions. Appearance is not a reliable means to know what another person feels. No one should be labeled &ldquo;gay,&rdquo; &ldquo;sissy&rdquo; or &ldquo;queer&rdquo; based on the perception of others. They may begin to believe what others tell them about themselves, which may be completely false labeling and cause gender confusion for the victim.<br />
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Moreover, a number of teens who do have same-sex attractions choose not to be identified based on who they are attracted to. Others are working to overcome their unwanted same-sex attractions and should not be called &ldquo;homophobic,&rdquo; &ldquo;pretender,&rdquo; or &ldquo;fake&rdquo; &ndash; derogatory words often used to describe ex-gays. Such name-calling can lead to depression, fear and feeling unsafe.<br />
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Students who have transition out of a homosexual identity, or decide to pursue alternatives to homosexuality, deserve compassion and respect. Their decision should not subject them to discrimination, ridicule, fear or hate.</blockquote>
<p>Another PFOX pamphlet, <em>Feelings Change</em>, encourages kids to seek reparative therapy:</p>
<blockquote> Lots of our friends had same-sex attractions when they were young and later on descovered [sic] they weren&rsquo;t gay. You yourself may have heard, &ldquo;You must be gay!&rdquo; But no one should be labeled &ldquo;gay&rdquo; based on the perception of others. Get Smart! Explore the origins of your same-sex attraction. Why do I have these feelings/ Where did they come from? Why should I pre-label my life?<br />
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A growing number of teens with same-sex attraction are looking beyond a gay identity to define who they are.<br />
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Although your same-sex attraction may feel like a gay identity, a gay identity may not fit into who you are. If you are not happy with same-sex attractions or a gay identity, there is help. Find out for yourself. Get the facts! Find out who you truly are! Be informed before you decide. Before adopting a gay identity, get smart! Get the facts!</blockquote>
<p>The PFOX board [<a href="http://wthrockmorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/PFOX9902008.pdf">pdf</a>] is also composed of some of the most stringently anti-gay voices in politics today, including Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel, who claims gay youth are more likely to commit suicide because they intuitively know homosexuality &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-suicide-rate-high-among-gay-youth-because-they-know-what-they-are-doing-unnatural-wro">is wrong and immoral</a>;&rdquo; Robert Knight of the American Civil Rights Union, who thinks there is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/knight-gay-staffers-control-congress-and-washington-dc">conspiracy among gay Hill staffers</a> to control Congress; Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, who has called for gays to be <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc%E2%80%99s-sprigg-wants-export-gays">deported from the U.S</a>., and of course, Greg Quinlan, who was once married to a fellow &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; woman <a href="http://www.exgaywatch.com/wp/2008/10/wife-divorces-ex-gay-activist-greg-quinlan/">until she divorced him</a>. As Amanda Hess of the Washington City Paper <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/if-you-thought-pfox-was-group-ex-gays-think-again">notes</a>, very few people serving on the PFOX board are actually &ldquo;ex-gays,&rdquo; but that hasn&rsquo;t stopped them from promoting dangerous &ldquo;ex-gay&rdquo; reparative therapy to children.</p>Brian TashmanAnti-GayEx-GayGreg QuinlanPFOX 28565Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:25:30 -0400Greg Quinlan